Recurrent pregnancy loss affects up to 5% of couples aiming to have a child. While genetic and anatomical factors explain many cases, nearly 40% have no known cause, leaving families without closure and solutions.
Our guest today, Professor Henriette Svarre Nielsen, has dedicated over 20 years of research towards finally unlocking answers for these families. As a physician and scientist specializing in recurrent pregnancy loss at the University of Copenhagen, she theorized the vaginal microbiome held critical clues. Her perseverance paid off recently in a groundbreaking case study published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine journal.
By performing vaginal microbiota transplantation from a healthy donor, Professor Nielsen achieved what once seemed impossible - she enabled a patient with multiple unexplained pregnancy losses to finally carry a pregnancy to term and deliver a healthy baby. But Professor Nielsen’s impact extends far beyond the lab and clinic. After witnessing the tragedy of preventable maternal deaths in Tanzania early in her career, she founded the Maternity Foundation which has now trained over 300,000 healthcare workers to save women’s lives in childbirth across the globe.
When I shared her study “VMT Patient Zero” on LinkedIn got over 65.000 views in less than a month!
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