The most intimate organ transplant

• Autores: Catherine de Lange
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2965, 2014, págs. 10-11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Vaginas grown in the lab from womens' own cells have been successfully transplanted for the first time. Four women who were born without a vaginal canal because of a rare condition had the operation when they were teenagers. Several years on, they now have fully functioning sexual organs. The four women had an undeveloped vagina because they had a severe form of a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), which affects about 1 in 5000 women to varying degrees