Swedes To Experiment With Uterus Transplant

Video: Swedes To Experiment With Uterus Transplant

Video: Swedes To Experiment With Uterus Transplant
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Swedes To Experiment With Uterus Transplant
Swedes To Experiment With Uterus Transplant
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Recently, an ethics review committee allowed the hospital at the University of Salgrenska in Gothenburg (Sweden) to carry out a human uterus transplant.

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The experiment could take place in the fall. The project will involve ten married couples in which women do not have a uterus. In the first phase, six transplant operations are planned, and in some of these cases, the uterus will be donated to daughters by mothers.

First, test couples will have to undergo in vitro fertilization treatment so that doctors can be sure that all partners are fertile. The fertilized eggs are then frozen until the donated uterus is ready to carry a fetus: since there is a risk of rejection, this will happen at least one year after a successful transplant.

Initially, the uterine transplant project was scheduled for April, but the date had to be postponed as the Supervisory Commission rejected it twice. Now the initiative has been approved, but on the condition that the scientists participating in the experiment organize a safety committee that will oversee the project and hold "regular meetings with logged points of view."

For reference: in Sweden alone, 14 girls are born annually who do not have a uterus.

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