Baylor performs first 4 womb transplants in the US
Surgeons from the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas have performed the first womb transplants in the United States from living donors.
Taking place between Sept. 14 and 22, the procedure was performed on four women born without uteruses because of their diagnoses of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome. Three out of the four wombs had to be removed due to low blood flow, while the fourth has shown no signs of rejection.
The procedure represents a giant leap forward in women’s care.
“If you look at this from the science [perspective], it’s something we’ve learned a lot from, and we have a patient who is doing well,” said Giuliano Testa, MD, the lead surgeon and surgical chief of abdominal transplantation at Baylor, to Time magazine. “This is the beginning of hopefully a great history for medicine."
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