For the second time in the United States, a baby has been born to a woman who received a transplanted uterus from a deceased donor, according to the academic medical center Penn Medicine.
Jennifer Gobrecht always knew she would be a mother someday, but her birth experience was one she couldn't have imagined.
She learned as a teen she was born without a uterus. For her body, pregnancy and birth were impossibilities.Now, Jennifer is the mother of the second baby in the United States to ever have been born from the transplanted uterus of a deceased donor.
Uterus transplants to begin in U.S. 01:27The 10-hour uterus transplant procedure involved placing the organ, shaped like an upside-down pear, correctly in the pelvis and connecting blood vessels from the donor uterus to Jennifer's blood vessels. A successful transplantation even means that the recipient will menstruate. For most recipients, it would be for the first time.Jennifer took medications following the surgery to reduce the risk of her body rejecting the organ.Dr.
"Based on the success of our trial as well as a few other centers in the US -- Cleveland Clinic and Baylor University -- as well as a few other centers in the world, I think that our community has established that this is a safe procedure in trained hands," Porrett said. She added that Penn Medicine is the only clinic in the United States still recruiting and accepting new patients for its uterine transplantation trial.
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