The first person to give birth with a uterus is implanted

For the first time in world medicine history, a woman who gave birth successfully from the uterus was donated.

The lucky woman was a 36-year-old Swedish athlete. She has a healthy ovary but has no congenital uterus, a defect that occurs in 1 / 4,500 girls in the world.

Last year, she had an uterine transplant from a donated 61-year-old acquaintance and had to use three anti-rejection drugs. The miracle is that only six weeks after the surgery, her body showed signs that the implanted uterus adapts well to the recipient's body.

After one year, the doctors transferred a fetus in vitro fertilized from her husband's eggs and sperm into the implanted uterus and the mother gave birth to a boy last month. Although boys are born prematurely, the health status of both mother and daughter is now good.

The baby was born perfectly healthy.(Source: AP)

According to Dr. Mats Brannstrom (obstetrics department, University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF) - the head of the study and who also performed this special birth support, said the baby was born "a wonderful thing, But seeing the joy of her parents is even more wonderful. "

Answering the phone interview, the father of the baby said the family was extremely happy because after many years of waiting and accepting to be the test subject of medicine, they finally satisfied the dream of having a child.

This medical event opens new hope for thousands of women who are hungry to have children but cannot because of having had a hysterectomy or cancer without having a uterus.

In medical history, there were two cases of uterine transplants in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, but there were no cases of pregnancy after. Therefore, many obstetric specialists have questioned the possibility of a fetus being nourished in a transplanted uterus. Some are skeptical about the effectiveness of this extremely expensive and risky method for the majority of women.

According to Dr. Glenn Schattman, a former chairman of Cornell's Association of Assistive Technologies and an obstetrician and an obstetrician, the uterine transplant is still an extremely rare case in medicine and is only performed when there is no choice other.

For the past two years, Dr. Brannstrom and colleagues performed uterine transplants for nine women, but there were two cases of later transplant surgery. Earlier this year, the group of scientists conducted embryos transplantation for seven successful uterine transplants and currently two are pregnant for at least 25 weeks.

In the face of the above successes, doctors in the UK, France, Japan, Turkey and some other countries also plan to perform similar surgeries, but use the womb of a lost woman rather than must be from a living donor.

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