Genetic male gives birth to twins |
A medical miracle is said to have happened in India. In a one in a million case, a woman, who was termed `genetically male` with a rare chance of conceiving, was helped by doctors to deliver two healthy babies. The babies, a boy and a girl were born on February 7 to a woman in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state in India after a series of treatment procedures spread over three years. Dr Sunil Jindal, the infertility specialist who administered the treatment, calls it a case of male delivering twins. Maya`s condition is medically referred to as XY gonadal dysgenesis, in which the person has external female characteristics but non-functional gonads or ovaries, the ovum-producing reproductive organs, which are necessary for natural reproduction. She never menstruated, or experienced puberty, leading doctors who conducted a karotyping (chromosomal study) on her to diagnose her as having XY(male pattern) chromosomes. The only saving grace, though, was that she had an infantile uterus, which could be developed by hormonal and endocrinal treatment. Doctors developed her uterus to be able to carry a fetus and delivery a baby.
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