Womb transplants

The world's first mother-daughter uterus transplant could take place next year in Sweden, the head of an international research team in the western Swedish city of Gothenburg said Tuesday. "We have reached a stage where we have started to plan for a human transplant and we are investigating 10 pairs, most of those are mother and daughters," Mats Braenstroem told AFP, adding the first of such transplants could take place "hopefully at the beginning of next year." He added that transplanting a...Read Full Story

Womb transplants that would allow childless women to have babies could be available as early as next year, a leading researcher said last night. Following successful animal experiments, doctors are ready to implant women with healthy wombs from donors. The forecast will bring hope to the thousands of women of childbearing age who are born without a womb or have had it removed because of disease. Breakthrough: Women could have womb transplants as early as next year But critics warned that the...Read Full Story

Experts divided on whether 'deeply complex' procedure, previously only carried out on animals, is safe for humans A woman in Nottingham has agreed to donate her womb to her infertile daughter if doctors gain permission to attempt the groundbreaking transplant operation. Eva Ottosson, 56, the director of a lighting company, said she would offer her uterus to her 25-year-old daughter, Sara, who cannot have children because of a serious birth defect that left her without a womb. If the operation...Read Full Story

Experts divided on whether 'deeply complex' procedure, previously only carried out on animals, is safe for humans A woman in Nottingham has agreed to donate her womb to her infertile daughter if doctors gain permission to attempt the groundbreaking transplant operation. Eva Ottosson, 56, the director of a lighting company, said she would offer her uterus to her 25-year-old daughter, Sara, who cannot have children because of a serious birth defect that left her without a womb. If the operation...Read Full Story

A breakthrough is developed for women who can not have children, the breakthrough is uterus transplant . This is a development of the success of womb transplant experiments conducted on animals. Professor Mats Brannstrom of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the originator of this breakthrough. According to him, uterus transplant can bring hope to thousands of women born without a uterus or which was forced to be removed because of a disease. He spent more than ten years to perfect...Read Full Story