28/1/2018
PUNE: After
country's seeing success in the first two cases of uterine transplant, doctors
attached with Galaxy Care Hospital in the city performed the third uterine
transplant on a 23-year-old woman from Karnataka on Friday, January 26.
The patient's mother donated her uterus. According to the
doctors, it took them six hours to perform the surgery. Surgeon Shailesh
Puntambekar said, "We did the uterus transplant in six hours. For the
first transplant, we had taken 11 hours while it took us 10 hours for the
second surgery." The removal of uterus was done in two-and-half-hours. The
doctors said that the surgery was performed using the laparoscopic technique.
"The woman has been married for five years. She suffers
from congenital absence of uterus. Her mother agreed to donate her
uterus," Puntambekar explained. The team of doctors also carried out
embryo transfer in the first two patients, who underwent uterus transplant at
the hospital in May last year. "We will get to know if they can conceive
or not over the next 10 days," said gynaecologists Pankaj Kulkarni and
Milind Telang, who carried out the embryo transfer.
If everything goes as per plan, the women will deliver either
in the last week of September or in the first week of October, which will make
them the first women in the country to deliver a child after undergoing a
uterus transplant.
Prior to the transplant, doctors had extracted eggs (ovum)
from their normal functioning ovaries and fused them with their husbands'
sperms in a laboratory set up (in-vitro fertilization) and preserved the
embryos for transfer at the right time to enable conception. The hospital
administration claimed that they have received as many as 480 inquiries for
uterus transplant and they aim to perform 10 uterus transplants within the
year.
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