First womb-transplant woman reported pregnant
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April 13, 2013, Saturday
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THE first woman ever to receive a uterus from a deceased donor is two weeks pregnant following a successful embryo transplant, her doctors said yesterday.
The 22-year-old Derya Sert was revealed to be almost two weeks pregnant in preliminary results after in vitro fertilization at Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey's southern province of Antalya, her doctor Mustafa Unal said in a written statement.
"She is doing just fine at the moment."
Sert was described as a "medical miracle" when she became the first woman in the world to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor in August 2011 at the same Antalya hospital.
The ground-breaking news of her pregnancy will rekindle hopes for thousands of childless women across the world who are unable to bear their own babies.
Sert was born without a uterus, like one in every 5,000 women around the world, and her doctors waited 18 months before implanting the embryo to make sure the foreign organ was still functioning.
Hers was the second womb transplant in the world, the first being in Saudi Arabia in 2000 from a living donor, which failed after 99 days due to heavy clotting. Doctors had to remove the organ.
The baby is expected to be delivered via C-section and the uterus to be removed from Sert in the months following the birth to avoid further complications.
The 22-year-old Derya Sert was revealed to be almost two weeks pregnant in preliminary results after in vitro fertilization at Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey's southern province of Antalya, her doctor Mustafa Unal said in a written statement.
"She is doing just fine at the moment."
Sert was described as a "medical miracle" when she became the first woman in the world to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor in August 2011 at the same Antalya hospital.
The ground-breaking news of her pregnancy will rekindle hopes for thousands of childless women across the world who are unable to bear their own babies.
Sert was born without a uterus, like one in every 5,000 women around the world, and her doctors waited 18 months before implanting the embryo to make sure the foreign organ was still functioning.
Hers was the second womb transplant in the world, the first being in Saudi Arabia in 2000 from a living donor, which failed after 99 days due to heavy clotting. Doctors had to remove the organ.
The baby is expected to be delivered via C-section and the uterus to be removed from Sert in the months following the birth to avoid further complications.
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