Transplant surgeon and joint team leader Isabel Quiroga said she was “delighted” by Hugo’s birth and called it a breakthrough for organ transplantation in the UK. <\/p>\n
“Very few babies have been born in Europe as a result of their mothers receiving a womb from a deceased donor,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Our trial is seeking to discover whether this procedure could become an approved and regular treatment for some of the increasing number of women of child-bearing age who do not have a viable womb.”<\/p>\n
Smith said the birth showed that girls and young women who were told they didn’t have a womb could now have hope of carrying their own child.<\/p>\n
A baby born following the transplantation of a womb from a deceased donor does not have any genetic links with the donor.<\/p>\n
More than 100 womb transplant operations have been performed around the world and more than 70 healthy babies have been born as a result.<\/p>\n
Donating a womb for transplant is not like donating other organs, such as the kidneys or heart – it is only allowed through a special request to potential donors’ families who have already agreed to donate their relative’s organs.<\/p>\n
In the UK, unless you have decided to opt out of donating your organs, it is assumed you agree to be an organ donor when you die.<\/p>\n
The parents of the donor, who wish to remain anonymous, said they felt “tremendous pride” at the legacy left by their daughter.<\/p>\n
She donated five other organs which were transplanted into four people.<\/p>\n
“Through organ donation, she has given other families the precious gift of time, hope, healing and now life,” her family said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transplant surgeon and joint team leader Isabel Quiroga said she was “delighted” by Hugo’s birth and called it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-442257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}