A Swedish woman has given birth to a baby boy after becoming the first person to get pregnant following a womb transplant performed by a robot.
The unnamed mother is doing fine after welcoming the child to the world Monday, by a planned caesarean section at 36 weeks.“It’s a fantastic feeling to deliver such a special, longed-for child,” Pernilla Dahm-Kähler, a robot-assisted surgeon and gynecologist at the University of Gothenburg, told CTVNews.ca.
The pregnancy was free from complications, with the mother in good health throughout, the university said. For the transplant the donor is operated on through one-centimeter incisions in the abdomen and the robotic arms holding the surgical instruments are guided by two surgeons, one on each side of the patient.
This method is much less invasive and gives a faster recovery time for the donor than traditional open surgery, the university said.
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