Pune: Medical team in India has progressed a lot in recent years. Its a very good example could be seen as a uterus transplant that takes the infertility industry to a new level. In the first surgery of its kind in Indian Medical Science, a mother has donated her uterus to her 21-year-old daughter.
The overarching rationale behind uterus transplant is that infertile women can benefit from this and bear their own biological children.
The 43-year-old decided to undergo the procedure so that her daughter, who was born without a uterus, can experience childbirth.
This unique and rare kind of uterus or womb transplant surgery took place in the city of Pune in southwest India on Thursday.
The surgery was performed by a team of doctors at Pune’s Galaxy Care Hospital under the guidance of the hospital’s medical director, Dr. Shailesh Puntambekar.
According to Puntambekar, “Both the patients are fine. The surgery took nine and a half hours in total.”
Dr. Puntambekar added, “The procedure is difficult because multiple large arteries are to be joined there, and veins that are small and short, it is technically very tough.”
The patient will have to wait a year before trying to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), giving her body enough time to heal and adjust to the new uterus.
Earlier, the first mother-daughter womb transplants was performed in Sweden.
A professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, Dr. Mats Brannstrom who led the team of world’s first womb transplant said, after surgery six babies have been delivered from a uterus transplantation.
Brannstrom led the team that first successfully performed the procedure of uterus transplant in 2014, after 11 unsuccessful attempts worldwide by their team and others a healthy baby was born in Sweden.
Since then at least five babies have been delivered as a results after the uterus surgeries performed by the Swedish team.
Now, its remains to be seen whether India’s first transplant will result in a birth.
“We are responsible for the patient and fulfilling their dreams of becoming a mother, which was impossible for them until now,” Puntambekar said, adding that he was aware of the “responsibility on his shoulders,” but was feeling “relaxed and confident.”
