Transplat miracle birth
Published: June 13, 2005
A previously sterile woman has given birth to a daughter after receiving ovarian tissue from her identical twin sister, the first transplant operation of its kind between two different women, U.S. doctors reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A team of scientists led by Dr. Sherman Silber of St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., removed one ovary from the donor twin, dissected the egg-producing tissue, then grafted portions onto each of her sister’s undeveloped ovaries. The recipient had not had a menstrual cycle since age
Within three months of the transplant, her menstrual cycle had resumed. During her second cycle, she became pregnant.
Last Monday night, the woman gave birth in an Alabama hospital to an almost eight-pound baby girl, said Roger Gosden, a fertility expert at Cornell University who was part of the research team.
The surgery marks the first time ovarian tissue has been transplanted from one woman to another. Some women undergoing cancer treatment have had their own ovarian tissue removed, frozen, then reimplanted, but Gosden said the attempts have not always been successful.
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