Guys, Now You Know!!
I love the signature in the corner. Like it's the Mona Lisa! "Yeah, I draw anatomy pictures for medical journals.........You might remember my Female Reproductive Map in the June '98 AMA???"
Organ donation has been an important part of saving lives for years now. Well, if you give a doctor five minutes to think, this is what they come up with.... It seems that a team of doctors in New York are now performing the transplanting of a woman's uterus. (Plural... Uterii? Uteruses?).
Now , I could fit all the knowledge I have of the female genitalia in a thimble, so don't ask me how it's done specifically, all I know is the uterus is good for 12 hours after death, then they transplant it, and then it's taken out after birth to prevent complications.
What do you think? Is this cutting edge medicine that will help couples with childbirth, or is this some Mengelesque medicine gone berserk? By the way, has anyone seen MY Uterus?
2 comments:
Mike, this is in the category of things science can accomplish, but the gains versus costs and success rate would drive this into the private clinics where the extreme financial cost is borne by private payers.
This is an area where you must have an exact match or donor-host syndrome complications get really complicated. It isn't like just getting an adaptor kit to put a Porsche turbo on you Yugo or Audi. Paraphrasing Freddie Fronkensteyn (from Young Frankenstein) "Livers and kidneys are Tinker Toys..."
The one reason for transplanting a uterus is to allow a woman to carry a baby to term. There is no compelling purpose in this to preserve a life for the recipient of this transplant, just the "luxury" of going through a pregnancy, concluding with a caesarian section.
While your're at it would you page Mike Hunt?
I see no problem with this if we do not have to pay for it with Medicare etc. As long as you can pay and a donor is available then have at it.
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