Lindsey, 26, of Texas, with her husband and doctors at a news conference on Monday, underwent the procedure at the Cleveland Clinic. Credit Dustin Franz for The New York Times
CLEVELAND — Just minutes after the patient’s name was placed on the waiting list for a transplant, details about a matching donor popped up.
“I was shocked,” said Dr. Andreas G. Tzakis, the director of solid organ transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic’s hospital in Weston, Fla. “I really considered it an act of God.”
Less than 24 hours later, on Feb. 24, the patient, a 26-year-old woman from Texas, became the first in the United States to receive a uterus transplant, in a nine-hour operation here at the Cleveland Clinic. Born without a uterus, she hopes the transplant will enable her to become pregnant and give birth.
“I have prayed that God would allow me the opportunity to experience pregnancy, and here we are at the beginning of that journey,” she said on Monday at a news conference, where doctors revealed details of her operation. She gave only her first name, Lindsey, to protect her family’s privacy. She and her husband, Blake, also 26, have three adopted sons.
The New York Times interviewed Lindsey in November as a candidate for an experimental uterus transplant, but it was not clear then whether she would be selected. At that time she did not want even her first name to be mentioned.
source : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/health/uterus-transplant-cleveland-clinic.html?_r=0
