1st frozen ovary tissue reimplanted
A British woman, who was left infertile after undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, is said to have become the world’s first to get her frozen ovary tissue implanted back into her by a robot named Da Vinci.
Emma Leach, 39, had pieces of her ovaries frozen five years ago following her breast cancer diagnosis and they have now been put back into her body in a pioneering operation that raises new hope for infertile women, the Daily Mail reported.
Prof. Kutluk Oktay, a New York-based fertility pioneer, agreed to carry out the operation after Leach had a series of consultations with him over the Internet. She was warned that the chances of success are low.
Her ovary was cut open by the robot and the tissue which had been removed and frozen before her chemotherapy treatment was stitched inside. More pieces of tissue which were too small to stitch in were then injected into the other ovary by the pioneering equipment.
She was discharged from hospital within hours of the procedure.
Prof. Kutluk Oktay, who performed the procedure for the first time, told the Sunday Times: “The robotic arms mimics the movement of the hand but there is much more precision. There is no hand tremor — this allows the surgeon to do fine suturing at microscopic levels without having to put patients through invasive surgery.”
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