Argentine woman becomes first to give birth after heart transplant - Tuesday Jan 29,2013

 

In what doctors Tuesday Jan 29,2013 said was a medical first, an Argentine woman with a transplanted heart has given birth to a baby girl following an in vitro fertilisation

Pregnancy after an organ transplant is always a high risk proposition because the drugs needed to ensure the transplanted organ is not rejected make pregnancy difficult, and their effects on the fetus are not clear.

"There is no record in the world of a transplant patient who has achieved pregnancy through in vitro fertilization," said Gustavo Leguizamon, head of the high risk pregnancy centre in Buenos Aires, where the treatment was performed.