Doctors say more possible ovarian transplants

Two new conservation techniques and transplantation of ovaries, women may be more likely in the fight against the clock and have children when they are older, doctors announced Monday

In the past, scientists, transplantation of the ovaries in women with cancer, chemotherapy, because often infertility. Generally, doctors, patients ovaries before the toxicity of treatment, then starts reintroduced later.

Because of the costs and uncertainties, - only a handful have been successful - the idea was only for women with serious illnesses, a few options.

Well, the recent progress in the ovaries and implant could be operational with the procedure for more available to your users for fertility problems in women, as they are old. Many women today, with a delay of their families in 40s or 30s, if fertility problems are more frequent.

Women aged 20 to 30 years could be a theory, ovaries and frozen, and then they have reimplanted years later, when they are ready to have children.

"We are in the midst of an epidemic of infertility," said Dr. Sherman Silber, director of St. Louis in Missouri Infertility Center, one of the experts of the research. "With these new techniques, we could finish our reproductive lives."

The research was at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Amsterdam.

Money and research colleagues, as many eggs were lost or in fresh and frozen ovarian tissue of 15 young women, before taking the treatment of cancer. Doctors have found no difference in the number of eggs in ovarian tissue frozen and fresh with a new ultra-fast.

With traditional slow freezing methods for conservation of the ovaries, almost half of a woman, the eggs were lost.

In research, Dr. Piver Pascal CHU Limoges in France on a new surgical technique for ovarian transplantation. Doctors often have difficulty in an ovary of function after transplantation, particularly because it is time for blood collection and supply of hormones to be restored.

Piver and colleagues trying to solve this problem, the transplantation of two methods: the first transplantation of small pieces of ovarian tissue, blood vessels grow in three days before the effective date of transplantation.

The technique was a French woman, who was unable to have children, because treatment of the disease. In June, she conceived a baby Girl.

"This is a step in the right direction," said Pasquale Patrizio of Yale University, Ovar, plugins, but not as part of the study. "If we're really under the control of these techniques, perhaps we can spread this technology to many women."

But, "said Patrizio doctors should know how an ovarian years of a woman, again in

"If I am a Ovar a woman, 30 and then reintroduced it 15 years later, it will work, as a 30 years, ovarian tissue, or is it 45?, he asked.

The experts indicated the possibility of a healthy women is suggested ovarian transplants Funke controversy.

"This is not an experimental procedure for patients with cancer more," said Silver. "The question is whether more women should be able to select this option."