Yahoo – AFP,
9 Feb 2015
New Delhi
(AFP) - An Indian woman who discovered she had mostly male chromosomes has
given birth to healthy twins after intensive treatment in what doctors said
Monday was the "rarest of rare cases".
The
32-year-old had an intersex condition in which she had the physical appearance
of a woman but had more than 95 percent XY chromosomes, fertility specialist
Sunil Jindal told AFP.
The woman
underwent more than 12 months of hormonal and other medical treatment to
develop her "infantile uterus" to allow her to eventually carry and
give birth on Friday to a boy and girl.
"This
is akin to a male delivering twins," said Jindal by phone from Meerut
city, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) northeast of New Delhi.
"She
did not undergo puberty and never menstruated. When we investigated further we
found that she had a very small vagina and an infantile uterus."
Jindal said
his team of doctors discovered during their research that there had only ever
been five reported cases of such pregnancies in the world.
"It's
nothing short of a medical miracle. We are really happy that we could pull it
off."
He said the
woman was startled to learn she had the condition, but was determined to
undergo the treatment to get pregnant.
"Even
she did not know she had this condition and was flabbergasted when we told her
about it. But the husband was very supportive and told her 'no matter what you
continue to be my wife'," he said.
Her
husband's sperm was used to fertilise a donor egg which was then implanted in
the woman's now developed uterus.
The babies
were born through caesarean section, weighing 2.25 kilos (4.9 pounds) and 2.50
kilos (5.5 pounds) each.
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