May have found the way to reverse the menopause – TVI24

An investigation carried out by a team of experts in Greece, says he managed to get women’s ovaries that had stopped menstruating returned to producing eggs, leading to the reversal of menopause .

in an interview with the journal New Scientist , the gynecologist Konstatinos Stakianoudis, responsible for research, revealed that the team focused on women who had early menopause and who wished to return to menstruate in order to have children.

Greek team used PRP therapy (Platelet Rich Plasma), which is the withdrawal and patient’s blood by centrifugation in a process that leads to the isolation of molecules that trigger the growth of tissues and blood vessels. A technique commonly used to speed the healing of broken bones and injured muscles, which can now also help in rejuvenating the ovaries.

If the Greek research results are confirmed, the technique could be used to increase fertility in older women, help patients with early menopause to become pregnant and act to combat the effects of menopause.

This provides a window of hope for menopausal women who will be able to get pregnant using their own genetic material “ , said Sfakianoudis the New scientist .

scientist also told the story of a patient of 40 years, who underwent the experimental tests after having earlier entered menopause.

Five years after beginning that physiological period, the injected team PRP in the ovaries of patient, making re menstruation after a period of six months. After the return of menstruation, the clinic carried out the collection of three eggs and two of them were successfully fertilized using the patient’s husband sperm.

The results were then presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Helsinki, Finland.

However, although two thirds of women between 39 and 49 years, have seen their menses return after submitting to PRT, doctors still do not are unsure how the technique works or how this plasma can trigger menstruation.

“it seems to work in about two thirds of cases. We observed changes in biochemical patterns, a restoration of menstruation “ , the doctor said to the New Scientist . ” We need more studies before we know for sure how effective treatment. “

Despite being an innovative technique that can be beneficial to women, some experts have questioned the methods used by the Greek clinic and consider the group should have done a first technical test on animals.

This experience would not have been allowed in Britain. Researchers need to work harder to make sure that the resulting eggs [therapy] are good “ , told New Scientist , Roger Sturmey, Faculty of Medicine Hull York.

Virginia Bolton, embryologist at the Hospital Guy’s and St Thomas’ in London, also told New Scientist have doubts about the effectiveness of treatment.

it is dangerous to stay excited about something before we have sufficient evidence that it works. “