Doctors in the UK have successfully performed the country's first ever successful womb transplant, giving a woman born without a uterus the chance of giving birth
after doctors successfully performed a procedure that they hope will pave the way for women born without a uterus to give birth.
The woman, who did not want to be identified, received a womb donation from her 40-year-old sister, who agreed to give up her womb after giving birth to two children of her own. It took a team of roughly 20 doctors to carry out the procedures, which lasted around 17 hours in adjoining operating theatres at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford in February.The recipient of the womb was born with a rare condition called Type 1 Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser where the uterus is absent or underdeveloped, however she has functioning ovaries.
She has already retrieved eggs from her ovaries and created embryos using her husband’s sperm. The couple plan to complete IVF treatment later this year.The donor’s womb was removed during an operation lasting over eight hours. Her cervix and fallopian tube were also removed, but she kept her ovaries to prevent early menopause.An hour before the womb was extracted, surgeons began operating on the younger sister. The transplant procedure lasted nine hours and 20 minutes.
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