The first baby was born in Verona with the reimplantation of ovarian tissue: the baby was born last month and is doing well.
The birth was the happy conclusion of the personal story of a mother from Verona who, as a teenager, fell ill with Ewing's Sarcoma and as a result of the chemotherapy she irremediably lost her reproductive capacity.
Instead, after 15 years, that woman had the ovarian tissue reimplanted which had been taken from her before the therapies and cryopreserved.
Today, little Marta (fictitious name) is the first child in Verona born with a pregnancy obtained through the reimplantation of ovarian tissue.
Marta was born spontaneously.
The mother, 36 years old, had discovered at the age of 21 that she was ill and therefore she would have had to undergo gonadotoxic therapies.
At the time, 15 years ago, the patient had turned to specialists at the Sant'Orsola Polyclinic in Bologna who encouraged her to undertake the fertility preservation process, with the removal of the ovarian tissue to freeze it and preserve it in liquid nitrogen .
After 15 years, when she was now considered a former cancer patient, the lady turned to the Medically Assisted Procreation Center of the Integrated University Hospital of Verona, directed by Dr. Gugliemo Ragusa, to be taken care of with in vitro fertilization and be followed in the stimulation of the reimplanted ovarian tissue.
The happy ending of the story was a clinical event that involved many professionals from the hospital.
So far, more than 130 births have been recorded in the world thanks to this procedure.
The chances of successfully concluding a pregnancy after reimplantation of cryopreserved ovarian tissue are up to 40%.
It is estimated that one in 49 women will develop cancer between birth and age 39, so fertility preservation is an important factor.
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