AskPippa🇨🇦<p>If you're a <a href="https://c.im/tags/doctor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctor</span></a> or <a href="https://c.im/tags/pharmacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pharmacist</span></a> in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a>, you can read my newest story for the Medical Post/Canadian Healthcare Network.<br />SEPT 2024 -- Over a dozen live births in Texas have resulted among people with uterine-factor infertility after getting a uterus transplant. </p><p>But there are still many risks and unanswered questions around the procedure—for both recipients and donors.</p><p>In a case series published in JAMA, researchers reported on the outcomes of 20 women who received a uterus <a href="https://c.im/tags/transplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transplant</span></a>. Of the recipients, 14 (70%) had both a successful uterus transplant and gave birth.</p><p>“It is the first time that we can offer women with this previously untreatable infertility the chance of becoming pregnant and deliver their own child. It is groundbreaking. It is also exciting that the children born are completely healthy and develop normally,” said study coauthor Dr. Liza Johannesson, associate professor at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.</p><p>Absolute uterine infertility occurs in about one in every 500 women, traditionally leaving those who wish to start a family to either adopt, or where its legal and available, choose surrogate pregnancies. </p><p>Absolute uterine <a href="https://c.im/tags/infertility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infertility</span></a> can be acquired or congenital due to either a dysfunctional or absent uterus, the paper said.</p><p>The year 2011 saw the first successful uterus transplant, and since then there have been just over 100 procedures conducted globally resulting in an estimated 70 live births. A total of 48 occurred in the U.S. since May 2024. Donated uteri can come from either living or deceased donors.</p><p>The Dallas Uterus Transplant Study (DUETS) began enrollment in 2016. Transplants were conducted between September 2016 and August 2019. The selection for donors and recipients was modeled after existing processes for kidney and liver transplants.... <br /> <br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/medmastodon" class="u-url mention">@<span>medmastodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://c.im/tags/medmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/obstetrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>obstetrics</span></a> <a href="https://canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/uterine-transplants-allowed-14-women-successfully-give-birth-process-complicated" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/u</span><span class="invisible">terine-transplants-allowed-14-women-successfully-give-birth-process-complicated</span></a></p>