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Doctors reported the first living child born to a woman who received a uterus transplant from a deceased donor yesterday (December 4) in a case study in The Lancet.
The transplant occurred in a São Paulo, Brazil, hospital in September 2016. The recipient, a 32-year-old woman, has a syndrome that had left her without a womb. Seven months later, doctors implanted an in-vitro fertilized embryo. Following a normal pregnancy, the mother gave birth to a healthy baby girl by Caesarean section on December 15, 2017.
Uterine transplants are still a fairly new procedure. The first baby born from a uterus transplanted from a living donor was delivered at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in 2014. BBC News reports that 39 such transplants have since resulted in 11 births.
The infant in Brazil represents the first case of a live birth from a deceased donor, a 45-year-old ...
