{"id":24345,"date":"2018-12-05T02:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T02:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24345"},"modified":"2018-12-05T02:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T02:23:28","slug":"first-baby-born-to-mom-with-uterus-transplanted-from-deceased-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24345","title":{"rendered":"First baby born to mom with uterus transplanted from deceased donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>For the first time, a baby has been born to a woman who received a uterus transplant from a deceased donor, according to Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo School of Medicine in Brazil. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The uterus or womb, which is shaped like a topsy-turvy pear and sits within the pelvis, is a female reproductive organ that houses and nourishes the fetus until birth. At least a dozen children in Sweden, the United States and Serbia have been born to women with transplanted uteri donated by a living relative, noted the authors of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(18)31766-5\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, which was published Tuesday in\u202fthe medical journal The Lancet. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The results provide proof-of-concept for a new treatment option for absolute uterine factor infertility,&#8221; wrote co-authors Dr. Dani Ejzenberg, an ob\/gyn at the University of Sao Paulo and Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas in Brazil, and Dr. Wellington Andraus, a transplant surgeon at the Sao Paulo University School of Medicine in the study. Less than 5% of women worldwide have some type of &#8220;absolute uterine factor infertility,&#8221; in which an abnormality of the womb interferes with fetal development. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)For the first time, a baby has been born to a woman who received a uterus transplant from a deceased donor, according to Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo School of Medicine in Brazil. The uterus or womb, which is shaped like a topsy-turvy pear and sits within the pelvis, is a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}