Surgeons perform UK’s first womb transplant with sister-to-sister donation

Описание: A woman received a uterus donated from her sister in the first womb transplant carried out by surgeons in the UK.

Her 40-year-old sister was happy to donate her womb due to already having two children and not wanting more.

The womb recipient, who does not want to be named, had the transplant in an operation that went on for just over nine hours at Churchill Hospital in Oxford in early February.

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