UAB Establishes Uterus Transplant Program

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By Adam Pope

The University of Alabama at Birmingham and UAB Medicine have established the first uterus transplant program in the Southeast and the fourth in the United States.

Led by Dr. Paige Porrett, associate professor of surgery in the UAB Division of Transplantation and Comprehensive Transplant Institute, the program will provide women with uterine factor infertility an innovative option for child-bearing using deceased donor organs.

Uterine factor infertility (UFI) may affect as many as 5% of reproductive-age women worldwide and was a previously irreversible form of infertility. A woman with UFI cannot carry a pregnancy to term either because she was born without a uterus, has had the uterus surgically removed during a hysterectomy or has a uterus in place that does not function properly. Congenital absence of the uterus is a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), which affects about one out of every 4,500 females, and makes it impossible for those women to get pregnant.

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