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By 1998, 40 years after the first child had been born to a transplant recipient,¹ more than 7000 women with renal transplants in the United States had had successful pregnancies,² as had thousands of other women internationally.^3,4 Hundreds of recipients of other solid-organ and bone marrow transplants have also had successful pregnancies.^2,3,5 For many of these women, the transplant "cured" their infertility. In this article, I consider how physicians can ethically address fertility issues with female transplant recipients.

In deciding whether to pursue pregnancy, transplant recipients need to know what they can expect for their own health outcome and for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Pediatrics, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, Chicago.

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