Uterus Transplant to Help Woman get Pregnant
A breakthrough is developed for women who can not have children, the breakthrough is uterus transplant. This is a development of the success of womb transplant experiments conducted on animals.
Professor Mats Brannstrom of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the originator of this breakthrough. According to him, uterus transplant can bring hope to thousands of women born without a uterus or which was forced to be removed because of a disease.
He spent more than ten years to perfect a complex surgical technique for the uterus transplant. Earlier in the trial he and his team managed to perform transplants on animals like rats, guinea pigs, goats and pigs. They estimate next year, this transplant could be done in humans and can be found in one out of ten hospitals around the world.
Not only professor Brannstrom, a team of researchers from Hammersmith Hospital in London, England also had developed a uterus transplant and successfully did experiments on rabbits.
The only uterus transplant experiment done on human was performed in Saudi Arabia in 2000, but failed after four months. Researchers from Sweden and the UK believe the failure occurred because of the complexity of the relationship between a transplanted uterus with the blood supply in the body.
“Over the past ten years, there are advances in surgical techniques,” writes Professor Brannstrom in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, according to the Daily Mail.
But this transplant could be temporary. The uterus could be removed again after a one or two pregnancies. This condition is aimed to prevent the dangers posed by drugs consumed by donor recipients.
“Women who can not have children can make this uterus transplant as an alternative. But that requires deep thought and discussion before it is realized,” said Susan Seenan, one patient in the Infertility Network, UK.
