Can men also get pregnant?
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Foto: Cadenagramonte.Washington, Nov. 11 - With current medical advances, people born as men can receive a uterus transplant and start a pregnancy, according to a paper published by The Telegraph.
According to statements by the president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Richard Paulson, there is no anatomical reason in the male body that would prevent the uterine relocation.
"There is a lot of space to move the organ, because men and women have the same number of blood vessels," said the expert during the annual meeting of the ASRM in the state of Texas.
The doctor warned that although this procedure would be an option for transsexual women (born male), the birth could occur only by cesarean section and not by natural birth.
Also, he said, patients would have to receive hormones to replicate the changes that occur when a woman is pregnant.
Uterus transplantation is a surgical technique, however, that has not been developed for many years and that still has great complications when performed in women, which implies even greater risks in men who change sex.
The trials to apply the technique began in 2012 in Sweden, with nine selected female patients.
However, since 2014, five babies born to mothers who had a uterus transplanted were born in Sweden. (Cadenagramonte)
