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An infertile Australian woman is pregnant after growing new eggs in ovarian tissue transplanted into her abdomen in a world first doctors say has the potential to revolutionise fertility treatment.
The woman, known only by her first name, Vali, is nearly 26 weeks pregnant with twins after previously being rendered infertile by treatment for ovarian cancer.
A team at Melbourne IVF and The Royal Women's Hospital managed to help the woman grow egg follicles and produce two healthy eggs after transplanting her own frozen ovarian tissue into her abdomen.
Only one baby has been born before in Australia after ovarian tissue transplant, and fewer than 30 globally, but this is the first time the tissue has been successfully transplanted at an entirely different site in the body to where it was taken from.
The Royal Women's Hospital now wants to develop an emergency centre to take and store tissue samples from young women with conditions such as ovarian cancer where the treatment could make them infertile.
It has collected about 300 samples from women it says could now go on...
The woman, known only by her first name, Vali, is nearly 26 weeks pregnant with twins after previously being rendered infertile by treatment for ovarian cancer.
A team at Melbourne IVF and The Royal Women's Hospital managed to help the woman grow egg follicles and produce two healthy eggs after transplanting her own frozen ovarian tissue into her abdomen.
Only one baby has been born before in Australia after ovarian tissue transplant, and fewer than 30 globally, but this is the first time the tissue has been successfully transplanted at an entirely different site in the body to where it was taken from.
The Royal Women's Hospital now wants to develop an emergency centre to take and store tissue samples from young women with conditions such as ovarian cancer where the treatment could make them infertile.
It has collected about 300 samples from women it says could now go on...