In Britain, a 40-year-old woman's womb has been transplanted into her 34-year-old sister. This is the first such case in Britain. Transplant has been successful. Both women are residents of England. The woman in whom the uterus has been transplanted was suffering from a rare disease since birth. In which the woman's uterus is either not fully developed or does not happen at all.
About 26 lakh rupees have been spent in this transplant. Know how uterus was removed from one woman and transplanted to another woman and how successful it would be.
A team of 30 experts performed 17 hours of surgery.
This transplant took about 17 hours, which was carried out by a team of 30 experts. The doctor who performed the surgery says that the woman who received the womb was suffering from a rare disease called Type-1 Mayer Rockitenske Kuster Hauser. In which the uterus is either absent or not fully developed. But in the recent transplant woman, the ovaries were functioning properly. The woman and her husband were undergoing fertility treatment. 8 embryos prepared from these have been stored.
Counseling was done for both the women before the transplant. The transplant was done after getting approval from the Human Tissue Authority. The cost of the surgery has been borne by a charity organization named Womb Transplant UK.
How was the womb transplanted?
According to the report published in The Journal, the surgery was performed at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. The transplant team includes Professor Richard Smith, Head of the charity Womb Transplant UK, Consultant Gynecological Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare and Isabel Quiroga, Consultant Surgeon at Oxford Transplant Centre.
According to the report of The Conservation, the transplantation of the womb is very complicated. A team of 30 people was involved in this entire transplant and the surgery lasted for 17 hours. The team was divided into two parts. A team removed the uterus of the donor. This whole process took about 8 hours. During this, the changes in the patient were continuously monitored. The woman in whom this uterus was implanted was first given medicines that control the immune system. Decreases its ability to work. These are called immune suppressing drugs.
Experts say, these medicines were given so that the body of the woman who gets a new pregnancy does not reject it. Transplant has been successful. Professor Richard Smith, who performed the surgery, says that it is a pleasure that the donor is now living a normal life after the major operation.
How normal will the pregnancy be after transplant?
Richard Smith says, the transplant woman is being given immunosuppressive therapy. Now her child will develop in her womb. According to Aljazeera's report, the donor woman is already a mother of two children. Now the woman who gets the womb will also be able to become a mother.
Isabel Quiroga, a surgeon at the Oxford Transplant Centre, says the patient is healthy and happy after the transplant. Her womb is functioning normally. Dr. Raj Mathur, Consultant Gynaecologist, British Fertility Society, says this is a great achievement. Now such rare diseases can be treated that when the pregnancy does not develop in a woman or does not happen at all.
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