A 22 year old Turkish woman, Derya Sert, is pregnant after having a womb transplant which is the first successful case since the procedure started.
Sert's surgery was the second womb transplant done by doctors, according to the AFP. In 2000, a patient in Saudi Arabia got a transplant from a living donor, but that womb failed due to heavy clotting and was removed after 99 days.
Derya Sert was born without a uterus, a very rare medical condition. She had vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments trying to get pregnant after the womb transplant, which happened in August 2011.
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process by which an egg is fertilized by sperm outside the body.
The womb came from a woman who had died in a car crash.
“Early test results are consistent with pregnancy. The patient is in good health at the moment. We will continue to update on developments in the coming period,” Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey’s Mediterranean city of Antalya said in a statement late on Friday, Reuters reported.
However, there is still a high possibility that Sert will have serious complications during her pregnancy, such as miscarriage.
Her husband, 35-year-old Mustafa Sert hopes for a healthy child, and that they don't mind having either a boy or a girl.
Approximately one in every 5,000 women is born without a womb globally, according to ABC News. Also, thousands more have the organ taken out caused by cancer or other diseases.
