2007年VOA标准英语-First Uterus Transplant in US Being Planned
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By Carol Pearson
Washington, DC
17 January 2007
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A New York hospital is taking initial steps to offer the first uterus transplant in the United States. Doctors in Saudi Arabia performed the procedure a few years ago but had to remove the transplanted uterus three months later because of blood clots 1. Now a doctor in New York says the time is right to try again. VOA's Carol Pearson reports on the procedure and the controversy 2 surrounding it.
At New York's Downtown Hospital, doctors are preparing for their first attempt to transplant a uterus. The procedure would go like this:
Surgeons would transplant a donated uterus into the recipient 3 through an incision 4 just below the navel.
Uterus transfer from a donor 5 to recipient
The recipient's frozen embryo 6 would then be transferred into her new womb.
She would give birth by Caesarian section. And then, the donated uterus would be removed so the woman would no longer have to take anti-rejection drugs.
The procedure raises many ethical 7 and medical concerns. Fertility specialist Dr. Sherman Silber explains, "At any time during the nine months of pregnancy 8 it could very easily reject. And if a pregnant uterus rejects, you've got a serious medical problem."
Simply put, the mother's life, and that of her fetus 9, would be in danger.
New York Downtown Hospital says doctors will first attempt the procedure on primates 10 in the next three months before any attempt is made on women.
Dr. Giuseppe Del Priore is interviewing possible candidates. "We've spent ten years and thousands and thousands of hours trying to make this as safe as possible. We take it very seriously. And the person who is eventually going to be the first candidate has to have a tremendous understanding of that risk."
Those risks raise ethical questions. Many ethicists say the very reason for a transplant is to save lives, not to put someone's life in danger.
Lori Andrews from the Chicago-Kent College of Law compare the need for such a transplant to a kidney transplant, for example. "We give kidney transplants to people who would die otherwise, and we do that because transplants are very risky 11."
But transplants are also done to improve the quality of life. Face transplants have improved the lives of people in France and China. Hand transplants are becoming more common. Women who are unable to have children because of cancer or other disorders 12 say a uterine transplant gives them hope that one day they will have the chance to love and nurture 13 a baby that came from their own womb.
Cancer survivor 14 Judy Brunstein says she would consider it. "The chance that I could have carried my own child would have been such a gift."
- When you cut yourself, blood clots and forms a scab. 你割破了，血会凝固、结痂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Milk clots when it turns sour. 奶变酸就凝块。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- Please check that you have a valid email certificate for each recipient. 请检查是否对每个接收者都有有效的电子邮件证书。
- Colombia is the biggest U . S aid recipient in Latin America. 哥伦比亚是美国在拉丁美洲最大的援助对象。
- The surgeon made a small incision in the patient's cornea.外科医生在病人的眼角膜上切开一个小口。
- The technique involves making a tiny incision in the skin.这项技术需要在皮肤上切一个小口。
- In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
- The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。
- They are engaging in an embryo research.他们正在进行一项胚胎研究。
- The project was barely in embryo.该计划只是个雏形。
- It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
- It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。
- Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
- Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。
- In the fetus,blood cells are formed in different sites at different ages.胎儿的血细胞在不同时期生成在不同的部位。
- No one knows why a fetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system. 没有人知道为什么母亲的免疫系统不会自动排斥胎儿。
- Primates are alert, inquisitive animals. 灵长目动物是机灵、好奇的动物。
- Consciousness or cerebration has been said to have emerged in the evolution of higher primates. 据说意识或思考在较高级灵长类的进化中已出现。
- It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险，但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
- He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。
- Reports of anorexia and other eating disorders are on the increase. 据报告，厌食症和其他饮食方面的功能紊乱发生率正在不断增长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The announcement led to violent civil disorders. 这项宣布引起剧烈的骚乱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The tree grows well in his nurture.在他的培育下这棵树长得很好。
- The two sisters had received very different nurture.这俩个姊妹接受过极不同的教育。