While advances in early IVF refined the technology for treating women with tubal disease, those with natural or premature ovarian failure had no effective fertility treatments until 1983. In December of that year, a 25 year old patient with secondary amenorrhea and premature ovarian failure
became the first person to successfully deliver a pregnancy using a donor egg. Dr. Peter Renou of the Monash IVF group in Australia inseminated a single oocyte, donated by a 29- year-old patient undergoing IVF herself for tubal disease, with the sperm from the recipient’s husband. The embryo was transferred back into the uterus of the recipient and resulted in a healthy full term live-birth (Lutjen et al 1984).