Each birth is a small miracle, but this one in particular. The University Hospital Center (CHU) of Toulouse announced yesterday on its account Facebook the birth of a baby boy after an ovarian transplant. The mother indeed had to undergo treatment which damaged her ovaries.
In 2009, this woman declared cancer in the neck. To treat the tumor, oncologists recommend chemotherapy that they know is harmful to the ovaries. They then suggest to the patient to keep one of the two thanks to freezing at the reproductive medicine center, with a view to a possible future pregnancy.
Spontaneous pregnancy
At the end of the disease, the patient is menopausal but has plans to have a child. At the end of 2014, the medical team transplanted the preserved ovary to him: the natural menstrual cycles resume in a few months. Nature does things well and the mother-to-be becomes pregnant in December 2015. Nine months later, in September 2016, a perfectly healthy baby boy is born at the Paule de Viguier hospital of the Toulouse University Hospital. He is part of a still small circle: barely 100 births after ovarian transplantation have taken place to date in the world.
The freezing of reproductive cells and organs is offered to girls, young girls and women who are to undergo treatment, for example chemotherapy, whose deleterious effects on fertility are known.
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