Revolution in the fight against infertility: uterine transplant

Doctors from Sweden recently said that they are going to have an unusual, one might even say, a revolutionary operation to transplant a uterus. The operation is not one of them will be a whole series - so said the doctors from the University of Sahlgrenska that in Gothenburg. They planned the operations already at the beginning of autumn 2012. The total number of operations plan - six, transplantation of the uterus will be made infertile young women, which women donor volunteer of the uterus.

In this experiment, you will participate only young married women who have no uterus, one of the main criterion should be the fact that their partners were fertile. A special Commission of observers on ethics has reviewed and is fully familiar with all inputs and gave the go-ahead for this unusual, experimental a series of transactions. However, earlier, as last year, in the month of April, the ethics Committee rejected two times an unusual offer for a uterus transplant, although doctors at that time were ready to conduct such an experiment.

Before operations will be conducted, the husband and wife will have to undergo a special course of IVF, as well as to make fertilization of the egg, that they remained in a frozen state all the time, until the uterus is in a new body will settle down. If operations are successful, the doctors in the plans to hold the women participating in the experiment, ECO, to be able to fully carry a child. However, it will be much later, as doctors will need to wait at least a year to observe the women do not start a new uterus to be in conflict with the body, that is to say to reject it.

It is, perhaps, to say that the girls born without uterus - a rare phenomenon, it can be found, fortunately, not often, but this phenomenon has long been known to physicians. For example, in Sweden alone each year are born about 14 girls with absent uterus. Developed a new method of transplantation of the uterus may help to realize the dream of some infertile women to enjoy all the delights of motherhood.

Such attempts to transplant the uterus of another woman, has been carried out previously, for example, in 2002, doctors from Saudi Arabia is carried out. But, unfortunately, three months later after the surgery was performed, the uterus hadto remove for the reason that it began to form clots, and leave it in the body of a woman was dangerous to her life.

Was and other information in 2001 from Turkey, where doctors reported that they had conducted a successful operation 21-year-old girl using a donor uterus of the mother, but still unknown, were this girl to get pregnant and then bear a child.