translated from Spanish: The first baby is born in Brazil after a transplant of uterus of a corpse

photo / Internet Brazil.-a 32-year-old woman has become the first in the world that gives birth to a healthy baby after receiving a transplanted uterus of a corpse. The recipient had intact ovaries and producing eggs, but he was born without a uterus by a congenital disease that affects one in 4,500 women.
During a more than 10-hour operation doctors were transplanted the womb of a 45-year-old woman who had died from a stroke. The procedure requires a complicated surgery and high doses of immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection. Seven months after the graft doctors implanted the patient one of their previously fertilized eggs. After a normal pregnancy, she had a healthy baby girl. After caesarean delivery doctors removed the transplanted uterus so it would not have to follow with intense immunosuppressive medication. The details of the operation, in 2016, are published today in the medical journal The Lancet.
These transplants are complex from a technical point of view, little successful and raise ethical dilemmas. In total, 39 transplants between living persons, of whom only 11 have healthy babies have been attempted. In the majority of cases the donor are mothers, sisters or intimate friends of the recipients, so the availability of organs is very limited.
The national transplant organisation warned to apply this technique in Spain because it offers more risks that benefits “is a technical achievement that is very questionable from an ethical point of view”, explains Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, Director of the Organization National transplant (ONT).
“Probably this technique spreads, even could become a routine”, says Cesar Diaz, gynecologist of the Valencian infertility Institute, a private entity.
Brännström explained in 2015 to ABC that it was receiving requests “from people who have changed their sex and who want to be mothers”. It is a technically viable intervention according to experts that raises even more complex ethical dilemmas.

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