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Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.

Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.

Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.

The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.

Ovary Transplant in Top 10, ABC’s Medical News

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The Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008

by Lauren Cox and Dan Childs
ABC News, December 24, 2008


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Dr. Sherman Silber and his surgical team perform the first ever whole ovary transplant.

This year marked a number of important medical advances and intriguing health news. To help narrow the large list, ABCNews.com reached out to the top medical centers and doctors in a wide range of fields…

No. 2: Birth From a Whole Ovary Transplant

On Dec. 10, a baby girl was born from the first-ever full ovary transplant.

The baby’s mother had lost her fertility when she went into early menopause at age 15 because of another medical problem. Later in life her twin sister (the baby’s aunt) donated a working ovary so that she may conceive. At age 38, she gave birth for the first time.

The baby’s mother had lost her fertility when she went into early menopause at age 15 because of another medical problem. Later in life her twin sister (the baby’s aunt) donated a working ovary so that she may conceive. At age 38, she gave birth for the first time.

Dr. Sherman Silber of the Infertility Center of St. Louis and his colleagues reported the medical advance.

A handful of other children have been born from transplanted ovarian tissue, specifically the outer shell, but the technique is not always successful.

Since the baby’s successful birth, doctors are anticipating using the technique to help women with fertility problems, or cancer patients who wish to protect their ovaries from chemotherapy.

Silber told Reuters that the technique of transplanting frozen ovaries may one day be used to lengthen a woman’s fertility across her lifetime.

“If she’s 40 or 45 when she has it transplanted back, it’s still a 25- or 30-year-old ovary, so she’s preserving her fertility,” Silber told Reuters.


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