Four Teenage Girls Given Lab-Grown Vaginas
Irish Examiner
Health • April 2014 • Views: 839
Laboratory-grown vaginas engineered from patients’ own cells have successfully been implanted into four teenage girls.
Tests showed the organs, constructed from muscle cells and the epithelial cells which line body cavities, functioned normally.
The girls, who were aged 13 to 18 at the time of the surgery, were born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome.
In women with the rare genetic condition the vagina and uterus are under-developed or absent.