Sensation: a woman gave birth after five organ transplants

About 26-year-old native of Qatar, today they write all the world's media. Fatima al-Ansari became the heroine of the day, proving that the impossible is still possible: despite the fears of doctors, the woman with the five transplanted organs gave birth to a healthy baby.

The girl was born in the women's center at the hospital named Jackson in Miami. Fatima was a complicated pregnancy, and doctors could not guarantee that a woman will be able to bear fruit. In clinical practice these cases did not exist before (the maximum number of transplants After which gave birth to European women - two).

"The fact that the body of our patient survived the brunt of the perinatal period, - a miracle! We did not have confidence that all will end well, "- he confessed to the representative of the hospital Dr. Salih Yasin at a press conference.

The hospital named Jackson Al-Ansari first addressed seven years ago, when only come from Qatar to the United States. She was two months pregnant, but then failed to keep the baby. The survey found that Fatima blood clot in an artery of the intestine, and it urgently needed an operation.

To save the 19-year-old Fatima, surgeons transplanted her five donor organs: liver, stomach, pancreas, small intestine and colon. It would seem, then the children should have been forgotten forever, but after 6 years, Al-Ansari and her husband decided to take a risk and conceive. Now, the couple plans to donate a small alkadienes Alhayal brother. Translate this desire into reality they want to in the near future. (READ MORE)

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