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Human uterus transplantation with live births; Outcome of the first clinical trials

R Akouri, M Brännström · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2016 · Heft 04

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2016
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Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
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R Akouri, M Brännström
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Heft 04 / 2016
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–
Erschienen: 2016-04-07 00:00:00
ISSN
0016-5751

Zusammenfassung

The last frontier to conquer in female infertility is absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI), affecting 1:500 women. This would correspond to around 160,000 AUFI women between 20 and 40 years of age in Europe. The cause of AUFI may be uterine aplasia, hysterectomy at young age (cervical/uterine malignancy, emergency postpartum hysterectomy), Asherman's syndrome or uterine malformation. Uterine transplantation (UTx) is now the first available treatment for this large group of women. Today, more than 20,000 children have been born from women with organ transplants and under immunosuppression (IS). Although the…

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