Today I read amazing news, it is possible to perform a uterus transplant and hope that it will help the recipient to manage a baby. A 56-year-old Swedish mother intends to donate her uterus to her own 25-year-old daughter, since she cannot conceive due to a disease called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, which prevents the reproductive organs from developing normally.
The young woman would conceive thanks to in vitro fertilization with one of her eggs and her husband's sperm, and the embryo would be transferred to the transplanted uterus so that, if all goes well, it would grow in her belly. The birth would be by caesarean section and the uterus would be subsequently removed to avoid complications.
According to experts who explain this possibility uterus transplant It has only been done once in 2002 in Saudi Arabia, although it had to be subsequently withdrawn due to complications. However, in Babies and more we talked in 2007 about the possibility of doing it in the United States even if the operation was not confirmed then.
Dr. Matt Bränström, from the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg, in Sweden, in charge of the team that will carry out the intervention, has been working on this type of transplant for years, which are considered to be of greater risk and more complex than those of heart, liver or kidney.
However, his research so far has not yielded birth results in animal tests. Although there are more women waiting to perform the same intervention, some critics consider that, since there has been no previous success with animal tests, it is precipitous to take this step, although doctors who plan to do so are hopeful that the consanguineality of Both patients will make the chances of rejection less.
If he uterus transplant that is going to be done between this mother and her daughter would be successful would be the first case in which a woman manages a child in the same uterus in which she was pregnant, and, although that involves certain ethical problems, the donor mother affirms that:
"It's just an organ, like a liver or a kidney. My daughter needs one. I have one and I don't need it anymore. I don't think there is any ethical problem in this."
What do you think of uterus transplant among living patients?
