India's first womb transplant conducted
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The recepient was a 21-year-old woman from Solapur who was suffering from congenital absence of uterus since birth.
In a major medical feat in India, doctors and surgeons at a private hospital in Pune successfully performed country's first womb or uterus transplant on a woman.
The surgery was performed at Pune's Galaxy Care Laparoscopy Institute (GCLI), that has been granted a licence by the state's Directorate of Health Services to carry out the uterus transplant.
The surgery started at 12.30 PM and ended at 21.00 PM on Friday. The recepient was a 21-year-old woman from Solapur who was suffering from congenital absence of uterus since birth. The donor is her 45-year-old mother.
The recipient woman would be able to menstruate normally and be able to conceive. The uterus of the donor mother was removed via a laparoscopic surgery. The subsequent transplant was done through a open surgery. She would be under observation of doctors for some time.
"The surgery has been successful," said oncosurgeon Shailesh Puntambekar who performed the surgery along with team of 11 other doctors, on Friday, briefing about the nine-hour-long surgery. Dr Sanjeev Jadhav, who has done heart, lung and kidney transplants, assisted Puntambekar.
In 2013, the world's first uterus transplant was done in Sweden - where 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s. The recepient had been able to conceive and had given birth to a baby boy. Nearly two dozen such surgeries have been performed around the world so far.
The surgery was performed at Pune's Galaxy Care Laparoscopy Institute (GCLI), that has been granted a licence by the state's Directorate of Health Services to carry out the uterus transplant.
The surgery started at 12.30 PM and ended at 21.00 PM on Friday. The recepient was a 21-year-old woman from Solapur who was suffering from congenital absence of uterus since birth. The donor is her 45-year-old mother.
The recipient woman would be able to menstruate normally and be able to conceive. The uterus of the donor mother was removed via a laparoscopic surgery. The subsequent transplant was done through a open surgery. She would be under observation of doctors for some time.
"The surgery has been successful," said oncosurgeon Shailesh Puntambekar who performed the surgery along with team of 11 other doctors, on Friday, briefing about the nine-hour-long surgery. Dr Sanjeev Jadhav, who has done heart, lung and kidney transplants, assisted Puntambekar.
In 2013, the world's first uterus transplant was done in Sweden - where 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s. The recepient had been able to conceive and had given birth to a baby boy. Nearly two dozen such surgeries have been performed around the world so far.