For the first time in the world, a child was born from a woman with a womb transplanted from a deceased donor.
'05.12.2018'
Source: CBS
Brazilian doctors reported the first child in the world born by a woman with a womb transplanted from a deceased donor.
Earlier, it was recorded eleven cases of childbirth using a transplanted uterus, but from a living donor, writes CBS.
The girl was born last December by a woman born without a womb due to a rare syndrome.
The mother of the child, an 32-year-old psychologist, who is not named, became pregnant through in vitro fertilization seven months after uterine transplantation. The donor was a dead 45-year-old woman who had three children.
The birth of the baby happened with a caesarean section. The doctors also removed the transplanted uterus, so that the patient no longer needed to take medicine against rejection of the donor organ. Almost a year after birth, the mother and child are healthy and feel good.
The experts noted that the use of queens from deceased donors could open the way to a greater number of transplants. Ten previous attempts to use for the birth of a baby transplanted from deceased donor uterus in the Czech Republic, Turkey and the United States failed.
Two more such transplants are planned as part of this Brazilian study.
Uterine transplantation was first performed by the Swedish physician Mats Brannstrom, who was able to ensure the birth of eight children in women who received donor uteri from family members or friends, but these were all transplants from living donors.
In 2016, doctors at the Cleveland Clinic transplanted a uterus from a deceased donor to a woman, but the transplant failed because of infection.
“The Brazilian team has proven that using deceased donors is a viable option,” said Dr. Tommaso Falcone, stressing that the study could provide doctors with a larger supply of organs for such transplants.
Other experts noted that the knowledge gained from such procedures may also help in resolving several secrets about pregnancy, which doctors have not yet been able to reveal.
