Uterus transplantation – for the first time in the Czech Republic

The first uterus transplant was successfully performed in Prague

Vlada Marsheva, Prague City Portal

The IKEM Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague performed the first uterus transplant in the Czech Republic. After the operation, the woman will be able to get pregnant and carry a healthy baby. The Institute will present the patient and the donor at a press conference on Friday.

The first child in the world of a woman with a transplanted uterus was born in September 2014 in Sweden. The donor was a healthy menopausal woman who had previously given birth to two children.

A pioneer in this field was Swedish Professor Mats Brennstrom, who was awarded the 2014 prize by the Czech Transplant Company last year for 11 successful uterine transplants completed with the birth of four healthy children.

The head of the IKEM Transplant Surgery Clinic, Jiri Fronek, who studied in Sweden, has previously said that uterus transplantation may become a treatment program for some congenital or acquired defects in the future.

Without a uterus, 1 woman out of 5,000 thousand is born. Many women lose this organ during their lifetime due to cancer, fibroids or serious complications during childbirth. According to Fronek, to date, uterus transplantation is still a study in which only a few dozen women have participated around the world.

Portal "Eternal youth" http://vechnayamolodost.ru  13.05.2016