A woman with spontaneous premature ovarian failure gave birth to a child at the Drum Tower Hospital in Nanjing Saturday morning. The boy was in the healthy state, proclaimed the doctors.
This is the world’s first case of an expecting mother with spontaneous premature ovarian failure giving birth to a child with the assistance of regenerative technologies.
The 35-year-old woman, who comes from Anhui province, was unable to get pregnant three years after getting married due to her spontaneous premature ovarian failure, which inevitably leads to infertility.
Premature ovarian failure — also known as primary ovarian insufficiency — is a loss of normal function of your ovaries before age 40. If your ovaries fail, they don't produce normal amounts of the hormone estrogen or release eggs regularly. Infertility is a common result.
In December 2015, she was transferred to the Regenerative Medicine Center of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital for stem cell regeneration technique treatment which is designed to improve ovarian blood flow and repair ovarian function.
The world’s leading technology is headed by Dr. Sun Haixiang of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital and Professor Dai Jianwu of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Using the technology, the implantation of an intelligent collagen scaffold can help stem cells to plant, differentiate and activate primordial follicles in the ovaries.
The clinical study has registered 23 patients in the experiment group with 2 successful pregnancies reported. 2 other women have been implanted with embryos.
