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Woman has baby after womb transplant in world first: Lancet
View(s):PARIS, Oct 4 (AFP) -A 36-year-old Swede has become the world’s first woman to give birth after receiving a womb transplant, medical journal The Lancet said today, describing the event as a breakthrough for infertile women.
The healthy baby boy was born last month, it said. Both mother and infant are doing well.
Weighing 1.775 kilos (3.9 pounds), the baby was born by Caesarean section at 31 weeks after the mother developed pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy condition, the journal said.
The woman had a genetic condition called Rokitansky syndrome which meant she was born without a womb, although her ovaries were intact.
The surgeons said the exploit smashes through the last major barrier of female infertility — the absence of a uterus as a result of heredity or surgical removal for medical reasons.
“Absolute uterine factor infertility is the only major type of female infertility that is still viewed as untreatable,” they said in a paper published by the British journal.