The press release from the Foch hospital in Suresnes, in the Hauts-de-Seine, fell on Friday. It reports the birth, on February 17, of the second baby resulting from the first uterus transplant carried out in France. The happy mother, Déborah, gave birth to a second girl, named Maxine, two years after the first, Misha, and four years after having benefited from this uterine transplant.
Maxine was a little early. Indeed, the birth took place after “35 weeks”, that is to say eight months and three weeks therefore. It was carried out in “very good conditions”, says the hospital, which, however, advertises a featherweight of “2 kilos 550”.
15 years of research
The establishment, of course, welcomes the event and extends congratulations to the team led by Professor Jean-Marc Ayoubi, who made such a transplant possible after 15 years of research work.
Foch hospital said more about Deborah’s medical career. She suffered from “uterine agenesis due to MRKH syndrome” -which affects one in 4,500 women-, and “had benefited in 2019 from a uterus transplant from her mother.”
Since then, the team led by Jean-Marc Ayoubi has performed the same operation on a second patient, who suffered from the same disease as Déborah, in September 2022. The graft this time came from the patient’s sister.
Source: BFM TV
