RightHealth Daily Dose » microsurgery http://dailydose.righthealth.com We feature the one health item you simply cannot afford to miss. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:03:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 World’s First Ovary Transplant Results In Newborn Success http://dailydose.righthealth.com/pregnancy/worlds-first-ovary-transplant-results-in-newborn-success/ http://dailydose.righthealth.com/pregnancy/worlds-first-ovary-transplant-results-in-newborn-success/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:43:47 +0000 Steven http://dailydose.kosmix.com/?p=796 A German woman became the mother of a new baby girl last week. What makes this story special is that baby Maja, named after the Roman goddess of fertility, was born as a result of the world’s first successful whole-ovary transplant. Susanne Butscher received her ovary from her sister, making Maja genetically her niece. The transplant procedure required microsurgery to connect the blood vessels to the ovary then positioning the ovary precisely so that eggs released from it could properly travel down the fallopian tube to be fertilized.

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