India makes medical achievement-first successful uterine transplants

Context

• India witnessed the first uterine transplants of two patients at Galaxy Care Laparoscopy Institute (GCLI)
• The woman from Solapur suffers from congenital uterus absence.
• She was fitted with her mother’s womb, which was retrieved mainly through laparoscopic or minimally invasive surgery after a nine-hour operation on May 18.
• The other woman from Baroda had a dysfunctional uterus and was suffering from Asherman’s Syndrome (adhesions or internal scar tissues)
• About 20 uterine transplant operations have been performed around the world to date.

Post Surgery

• Both the patients are in good health.
• After internal tests, the doctors found out that the inner lining of the uterus in both cases has thickened while the blood parameters are within normal range.
• Sperms had been taken from the respective husbands of the patients and eight embryos had been frozen.
• There will be a wait for another six months at least before the embryos are implanted in the transplanted wombs.
• The hospital has received more than 80 applications since the transplants.