Woman With Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in the U.S.<br />“I’ve seen so many births and delivered so many babies, but this was a very special one.”<br />At Baylor, eight women have had transplants, including the new mother, in a clinical trial designed to include 10 patients.<br />I feel very thankful for their contribution, more so than I can express.”<br />Both Dr. Johannesson and Dr. Testa said that a large part of their motivation came from meeting patients<br />and coming to understand how devastated they were to find out that they would not be able to have children.<br />The mother, who was born without a uterus, received the transplant from a living donor last year at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas,<br />and had a baby boy there last month, the hospital said on Friday.<br />Four other transplants failed after the surgery, and the organs had to be removed, said Dr. Giuliano Testa,<br />principal investigator of the research project and surgical chief of abdominal transplantation.<br />Another hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, performed the first uterus transplant in the United States in February 2016, but it failed after two weeks because of an infection<br />that caused life-threatening hemorrhage and required emergency surgery to remove the organ.<br />Dr. Liza Johannesson, a uterus transplant surgeon who left the Swedish team to join Baylor’s group, said the birth in Dallas was particularly important because it showed<br />that success was not limited to the hospital in Gothenburg.
