A baby girl was born after Britain’s first pregnancy implants.
It is an important milestone that hopes thousands of women.
Grace Davidson, 36 -year -old NHS dietist from North London, gave birth to daughter Amy Isabel.
Mrs. Davidson received a pregnancy from her elder sister Amy Pardi, 42 -year -old during surgery in 2023.
Here, we look at the details of this important scientific leap.
Will there be more transplants in the UK?
Yes. Three more pregnancy transplants have been done in Britain using dead donors. It is expected that the recipients of these wombs will produce children.
Experts believe that a maximum of 20 to 30 pregnant transplants can be done per year in the UK in the future.
The transplant can help women born without a working pregnancy, also known as the uterus, and those who lose their organ for cancer or other medical conditions.
It is estimated that there are 15,000 women in the UK of childbering age who do not have functioning.
To be eligible for the program, women must live in the UK and aged 24 to 40 (or 42 if the fetus are frozen before the age of 38).
Will there be a shortage of donor vomps?
Womb transplant UK is running two programs, one includes living donors and the other with the organs of women who have died.
The living donor program in the UK has so far focused on women with relatives who are ready to give their womb.
However, the team believes that, in the future, the living donor will expand to include friends or philanthropists in the program. This is quite common in America.
Dead donors are used when families of those who die, especially whether they want to donate to the womb.
The womb is not covered with general consent for donations, nor by joining the organ donor register, and it is not covered with consent (those who believe that they do not leave until they come out).
Did NHS pay for pregnancy transplant?
No. The cost of each pregnancy transplant is around £ 25,000 and it is completely funded by charity pregnancy UK.
This includes payment to NHS for the theater time and the patient’s stay on a ward.
Operations are done only several times when NHS is not using operating theater, so they do not affect the general NHS waiting list.
The surgeon and medical staff involved in the transplant have not been paid for their time.
Once Mrs. Davidson became pregnant through self-funded IVF, NHS handled her pregnancy management and safe delivery of Baby Amy.
Are other pregnant transplants around the world?
More than 100 pregnant transplants have been done internationally, including most operations, including a living donor.
The first successful pregnancy transplant took place in Sweden in 2014, in which children were born with a 36-year-old woman, who described him as “right”.
Aaj Tak, pregnancies have been performed in many countries including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Sweden, America, China, Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany, Serbia and India.
At least 50 infants are believed to have been born after pregnancy transplant worldwide.
How successful is the operation?
America’s data suggests that more than half of the women who were pregnant through a transplant in the US went for successful pregnancies.
Between 2016 and 2021, 33 women received pregnancies in the US and, by 2022, 19 of them (58 percent) distributed a total of 21 infants.
In 74 percent of the pregnancies, this organ was working even after one year of transplantation and 83 percent of the children of this group were living children.
The UK data is limited, but all the implants made so far have given birth to a fully working pregnancy.
How many employees are required for pregnancy transplantation?
In 2023, the UK’s first pregnancy transplant included more than 30 employees.
It took eight hours and 12 minutes to remove the removal of Mrs. Pardi’s womb.
An hour before the pregnancy, the surgeon began working on Mrs. Davidson.
Prior to surgery, both sisters consulted and reviewed by gynecologists, transplant surgeons, obstetricians, psychologists, anesthetists and pharmacists.
They were also evaluated by a Human Tissue Authority (HTA) independent evaluator to ensure that they knew about risks and to confirm that they were entering their own freedom surgery.
The case was also reviewed by an HTA panel before permission.
