Five uterine transplants were completed at Baylor Dallas in 2016.
Researchers at Baylor Dallas hope that by 2018, the medical center’ s first baby born from a transplanted uterus could enter the world. The successful birth would be the outcome of a clinical trial announced in January 2016 by the Baylor Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, which aims to give women a new womb and a chance to become pregnant and to carry a child to term.
As part of a national and widely publicized trial, physicians at Baylor Dallas implanted wombs in five women with absolute uterine factor infertility( AUI). Living donors provided the uteruses. Three were removed due to poor blood flow. The other two are still viable and have shown no signs of rejection. Trial protocol limits the first phase to 10 donor / recipient pairs, but based on the response of 200 potential recipients and 50 potential donors, many more women could have their chance in future trials.
“ Through the entire process of transplantation, fertilization, prenatal care and delivery, they are all connected as part of this study taking place at Baylor Dallas,” said Giuliano Testa, MD, principal investigator and surgical chief of abdominal transplantation at Baylor Dallas.“ All of these components are integrated with one goal in mind: helping women who’ ve been previously unable to have a baby. This is the beginning of what we hope to be a great history for medicine, but it really is only the beginning.”
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND EVENTS In April 2016, Baylor hosted an international conference on Antibody Mediated Rejection in Liver Transplantation, Part II. Speakers and attendees came from around the world to participate in the meeting that was held in Dallas and to enjoy the World Aquarium.
Transplant centers, as well as health care providers around the world, validated Baylor Dallas’ reputation as a leader in the field by inviting team members to present at several prestigious conferences: ASTS- American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Winter Symposium- Florida ILTS- International Liver Transplantation Society- Korea TTS- The Transplantation Society- Hong Kong IHBP- International Hepatobiliary- Pancreatic Surgery, Symposium- France TTS- Texas Transplantation Society- Fort Worth AASLD- American Association for the Study of Liver Disease- Boston
Baylor Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute hosted the following symposiums: AMR Symposium( April 8 – 9, 2016) Donor Advocate( Nov. 4, 2016)
In addition, Baylor Dallas was selected as the 2017 host site for the International Living Donor Liver Study Group, the premier organization for education in living donor transplantation in the world.
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