1st baby born from deceased organ donor’s womb — here’s what you need to know

More In a landmark move, a baby in Brazil has been born to a woman with a transplanted uterus from a deceased donor. The baby was born on Dec. 15, 2017, through a C-section, and is believed to be the first to be born with a uterus from a deceased donor. A study on the case, published in the journal the Lancet, says the mother had congenital uterine absence (meaning, she was born without a uterus) and was 32 when she received a uterine transplant in 2016 from a 45-year-old donor. Four months before the transplant, the mother went through IVF and got eight good embryos, which were frozen. Seven months after the surgery, an embryo was implanted and her pregnancy was confirmed. The woman’s uterus was removed after she delivered. This isn’t the first baby born to a woman with a uterine transplant—several have been born in Sweden, the U.S., and Brazil to women who received uterine transplants from live donors. The first successful uterine transplant (from a living donor) took place in 2013 in Sweden, and the woman who received the transplant gave birth in 2014. However, a woman who received a live uterine transplant gave birth to a baby boy in 2017, making it a first for the U.S. The latest birth opens “a path to healthy pregnancy for all women with uterine factor infertility, without need of living donors or live donor surgery,” they wrote in the paper.

• Mayra Rodriguez
• Posted on December 6, 2018
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