In the United States, a 26-year-old woman (whose identity has not been revealed) suffering from infertility of uterine origin has become the first recipient of a uterus transplant in the country. Surgeons from the Cleveland Clinic (United States) have indeed announced in a press release that they had successfully performed a first transplant, during a 9-hour surgical operation.
The Cleveland Clinic announced that the uterus was from a deceased donor and the recipient was clinically stable. They are expected to provide more information on this clinical trial in a few days.
For this trial, ten women were selected. All were born without a uterus (a condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome which affects one in 4,500 women) or had to have them removed due to cancer.
In France, the National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM) has decided to authorize uterine transplants and has launched a clinical trial at the Limoges University Hospital Center (CHU). For this essay, 8 women with sterility of uterine origin will receive uteri from brain-dead donors. But transplants are not expected to take place until 2018.
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