Post date: Apr 13, 2013 7:56:35 PM
Turkish woman falls pregnant after womb transplant from a dead donor
ANTALTYA, TURKEY (AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL) - The first woman to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor is pregnant, a hospital in southern Turkey said in a statement late on Friday (April 12).
Derya Sert, 22, who was born without a womb, had been receiving in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment after the transplant in August 2011.One in every 5,000 women globally is born without a womb, while thousands more have the organ removed due to cancer or other diseases, leaving them unable to get pregnant.
In September, doctors in Sweden performed the world's first mother-to-daughter womb transplants on two Swedish women, both in their 30s.