Pregnancy after the menopause

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3119, 2017, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Two women thought to be infertile have become pregnant using a technique that seems to rejuvenate ovaries. It is the first time such a treatment has enabled women with menopause symptoms to get pregnant using their own eggs. The approach uses a person's own blood, isolating platelet-rich plasma, which has a large number of the cell fragments usually involved in clotting. Konstantinos Sfakianoudis and his colleagues at the Genesis Athens Clinic in Greece are using this plasma in an attempt to repair women's reproductive systems, injecting it directly into the ovaries and uterus. So far, the team has given this experimental therapy to more than 180 women, many of whom sought treatment because they have a disorder that damages the lining of the uterus. But the team has also given the treatment to 27 menopausal and peri-menopausal women between the ages of 34 and 51. Some had treatment because they wanted to stop symptoms of the menopause, but most did it because they wanted to get pregnant. Eleven of these women have since had In vitro fertilization , and two women have managed to get pregnant.