World medicine continues to record great progress in the field of uterus transplantation, helping women with reproductive organ defects, have the opportunity to become mothers.
The first image of a baby born from a deceased donor uterus.
The French medical journal Lancet has published information on the world’s first successful surgery to transplant a uterus from a deceased donor. The transplant surgery was performed in 2016 in Brazil and the first baby born thanks to this method was a girl. Baby crying was born in September of the same year, in Sao Paolo.
This baby girl’s mother is a woɱaп who was born without a uterus due to a rare syndrome. At the age of 32, 4 months before the actual operation of a uterus transplant from a 45-year-old woɱaп who died from a stroke, the girl’s mother had her eggs taken for IVF. . Result: 8 embryos were preserved frozen. The actual uterus transplant surgery was completed after more than 10 hours.
According to statistics, the percentage of women with uterine problems such as birth defects, removal or infection leading to infertility is 1 in 500. Therefore, the method of transplanting a uterus from a deceased donor is considered a great success in the medical field, helping ɱaпy women with reproductive organ defects around the world have the opportunity to become mothers.