First Child Born To Woman Using Ovarian Tissue Frozen During Her Childhood

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 05:06 in Health & Medicine

A case study reports on a young woman who gave birth to a healthy child after doctors restored her fertility by transplanting ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen while she was a child. There have been reports of successful pregnancies after ovarian transplantation using tissue that had been removed from patients as adults but this is the first successful instance using tissue taken from girls before puberty. read more

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