The girl was the first to raise the uterus from fish skin

The girl was the first to raise the uterus from fish skin

The Brazilian student became the first woman in the world, which implanted a new sexual organs, made of fish skin. This publication reports the Metro.

23-year-old Joselin Marinho (Marinho Jucilene) from the Brazilian city of Lavras-da-Mangabeira was born without a uterus and cervix. Such congenital abnormality occurs in 0.02 percent of newborn girls.

During reconstructive surgery in the incision in place of the vagina have inserted a special form, lined with the skin of freshwater fish tilapia. In contact with the body of the patient, it acts like stem cells and converted into cellular tissue that replaces a missing body.

In March it was reported that China’s mother gave born without a uterus of his daughter. In the operating room, there were 20 surgeons and transplant organ were used medical robot.

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