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A woman with this condition is hormonally normal; that is, she will enter puberty with development of secondary sexual characteristics including thelarche and adrenarche (pubic hair). Her chromosome constellation will be 46,XX. Ovaries are intact and ovulation usually occurs. Typically, the vagina is shortened and intercourse may in some cases be difficult and painful. Medical examination supported by gynecologic ultrasonography demonstrates a complete or partial absence of the cervix, uterus, and vagina.
If there is no uterus, women with MRKH cannot carry a pregnancy. However, it is possible for these women to have genetic offspring by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and surrogacy. Uterine transplantation is currently not a treatment that can be offered as the technology is still in its infancy.
Women with MRKH typically discover the condition when, during puberty years, the menstrual cycle does not start (primary amenorrhea). Some women find out earlier through surgeries for other conditions, such as a hernia.
There are two forms of MRKH. One form is associated with the absence of just the vagina and uterus, while the other affects additional parts of the body, too. Of those with the form that affects additional parts of the body, 40% will have kidney abnormalities (15% of these girls/women will be born with only one kidney instead of two), 10% will have hearing problems, and 10-12% will have skeletal abnormalities. [1]
In 1988, a teenager living in the small southern African nation of Lesotho came to local doctors with all the symptoms of a woman in labor. The doctors were puzzled, however, because she did not have a vagina, only a shallow skin dimple. Doctors traced her pregnancy to a knife wound to her abdomen 278 days earlier, after she had practiced fellatio on her boyfriend. The sperm had leaked from her stomach to her abdominal cavity and fertilized one of her eggs. This case was reported by Dr. Richard Paulson, head of the University of Southern California Fertility Program in Los Angeles, February 3, 2010.[2]
This ranks right up there with the thread from today about the guy who let an unknown women showing up at his doorstep to give him an enema, and then calling the police afterward when he got suspicious.
Originally posted by AnteBellum
reply to post by LadySkadi
I just didn't want to use the V-word in the title!
Vagina
VAGINA