Womb transplant

[AmyNation]

New experimental transplant allows 2 Swedish women to receive wombs donated by their mothers. So far the procedure looks promising and the women are doing well.


KDBC 4 CBS: First Mother-Daughter Womb Transplants Performed in Sweden

 

[depotoo]

this would be amazing. I don't know for certain how I really feel about it, but know, having lost mine when I was in my early 30's, and then finding the love of my life, it gave me pause for thought.

 

[Lovebears65]

Medicine and doctors are amazing. It amazes me all the time what Doctors can dol

 

[Sinusitis]

Wouldn't their mother's wombs be past the prime age where they are able to give birth? Or is the age of a womb not the reason old women don't commonly give birth?
How much more of a stretch would it be to transplant a womb into a male?

 

[Noomi]

That is amazing. Hopefully one day we can transplant wombs into pro life men and force them to endure childbirth.

 

[waltky]

Mebbe dey could put a picture window in it so's ya could have a womb with a view...

Britain gives green light for first 10 womb transplants
Oct 1, 2015: Britain has for the first time given an official go ahead to womb transplant operations.

UK's first 10 womb transplants have been granted ethical permission after a woman successfully gave birth to a baby from a transplanted womb in Sweden on September 2014. The donated womb came from the woman's own mother, making it the first baby in the world born to a woman using the same womb from which she was herself born.

The British womb transplant research programme will be open to women in a long term relationship aged between 25 and 38 and who have normally functioning ovaries and their own eggs.They will have to be UK residents and eligible for NHS care. After receiving hundreds of requests from infertile women, the team has zeroed down on 104 women who meet the basic requirements for potential inclusion on the programme.

The head of the research team, Richard Smith, a consultant gynaecologist in London, said, "This operation is clearly a viable option for those women who otherwise have absolutely no chance of carrying their own baby . Absolute infertility can bring with it terrible consequences for as many as 50,000 women of childbearing age in the UK who do not have a viable womb." If successful, the first UK baby born from a womb transplant could arrive in late 2017 or 2018.

Britain gives green light for first 10 womb transplants - The Times of India

 

[Blackrook]

Doctors create life, and they take it away..

 

[Delta4Embassy]

History of transplantation is an interesting read. Be reattaching limbs for centuries (presumedly with varying success heh.) But the Mr. Potato head reality of our bodies with how we can swap parts is interesting.

 

[Blackrook]

What's ironic is that doctors will take heroic efforts to save unborn children in one room, and then abort healthy unborn children in the next.

 

[EverCurious]

If this had been around 30-40 years ago a couple I knew could have had children, and my husbands ex-wife would not have had two miscarriages and two precarious births.

This is good news.

 

[waltky]

First American womb transplant...

Womb transplant recipient grateful for chance at pregnancy
Mar. 7, 2016 — The recipient of the nation's first uterus transplant said Monday that she prayed for years to be able to bear a child, and is grateful to the deceased donor's family and surgeons who've given her that chance.

Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic said Monday that the 26-year-old woman is recovering well after receiving the uterus late last month. The experimental surgery is part of a new frontier in transplantation that, if it works, might be an alternative for some of the thousands of women unable to have children because they were born without a uterus or lost it to disease. The woman, identified only as Lindsey to protect her family's privacy, appeared briefly at a news conference with her husband. She said she already is a mother to three "beautiful little boys" adopted through foster care and that she was told when she was 16 that she wouldn't be able to bear children. "From that moment on, I've prayed that God would allow me the opportunity to experience pregnancy," she said. "And here we are today, at the beginning of that journey."

Lindsey and her husband Blake stand with Cleveland Clinic medical staff​

The woman must wait at least a year to ensure the new uterus is healthy enough to try getting pregnant through in vitro fertilization, using embryos frozen ahead of the operation. To monitor the transplant, she will undergo monthly examinations. Other countries have tried womb transplants. Sweden reported the first successful birth in 2014, with a total of five healthy babies from nine transplants so far. The transplant team at the Cleveland Clinic, which has been exploring the possibility of performing uterus transplants for 10 years, trained with the Swedish surgeons.

The hospital has screened more than 250 women to identify 10 who qualify for the clinical trial, those lacking a functional uterus but with healthy ovaries that produce eggs. They must understand the risks — complications from abdominal surgery, plus the possibility that the transplant will fail — and that it's experimental. "We must remember a uterine transplant is not just about a surgery and about moving a uterus from here to there. It's about having a healthy baby," said Cleveland Clinic surgeon Dr. Rebecca Flyckt.

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[QuickHitCurepon]

They can replace or modify just about anything nowadays. Although, I really don't believe (as in the sci fi movies) they will ever be able to tamper with the brain much, without the patient dying soon. Nature has placed too many built-in safeguards around it.