Uterine transplantation: One human case followed by a decade of experimental research in animal models

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 199-203

  Hanafy, Ash ^a   Diaz Garcia, César ^b,c   Olausson, Michael ^b   BrÎnnstrÖm, Mats ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

immunosuppression; infertility; pregnancy; transplantation; uterus

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

AORTA; CAVA VEIN; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; ISCHEMIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORALITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; SAPHENOUS VEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE NECROSIS; UTERUS PROLAPSE; UTERUS SURGERY; UTERUS TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RABBITS; RATS; REPERFUSION INJURY; SHEEP; SWINE; UTERUS;

EID: 79958128167     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2010.01283.x     Document Type: Review

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