Turkish womb transplant patient loses baby

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Turkish womb transplant patient loses baby

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A woman who was the first to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor has had her pregnancy terminated after the embryo showed no heart beat, doctors in Turkey said on Tuesday. Derya Sert, 22, who was born without a womb, had been receiving in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment after the transplant in August 2011. Her pregnancy was announced in April. "Derya Sert's pregnancy was terminated after her end-of-8-weeks examination showed no embryo heartbeat," Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey's Mediterranean city of Antalya said. ...

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