Re: ALTERNATIVES AFTER A HYSTERECTOMY

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I am going to assume that by partial hysterectomy, you mean that at least the main portion of the uterus known as the fundus has been removed. In my area, patient's use the term "partial hysterectomy" is used to refer to a hysterectomy where the ovaries are preserved. This is not the technical way of naming things, but common around here.

In any event, if all of your uterus, or the fundus has been removed, then you personally will not be able to carry a pregnancy. If you were able to find someone who would carry the pregancy for you, a surrogate mother, then your eggs could be fertilized outside your body with either your husband's sperm, or frozen sperm, and then the resulting embryo's could be implanted into a prepared uterus in another woman. Alternatively, your eggs and your husband's sperm could be instilled into the surrogate's fallopian tubes (Gamete IntraFallopian Tube transfer, or GIFT), or the zygote's could be placed there (ZIFT). I hope this is the information that you were looking for.

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