Surgeons have performed the nation's first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy.
After surgeons performed the operation in Cleveland clinic, United States, authorities in a statement, said the nine-hour surgery was performed on a 26-year-old woman, using a uterus from a deceased donor.
The Mail Online said the hospital had long been planning for such a surgery, announcing last fall a clinical trial that would attempt 10 transplants.
The hospital said it wouldn't release any more details until a press conference next week, except to say the woman's condition was stable. How doctors carry out womb transplant
The first step involves doctors removing some of the patients' eggs in order to fertilise them in a dish to create embryos.
These are then frozen, until they are needed.
Secondly, a womb, complete with two major arteries and four veins, removed from a from donor in a three-hour operation.
The donated womb is then implanted into the patient during an operation that typically takes around six hours.
The woman is then, as all organ tranplant patients are, prescribed powerful immunosuppressant drugs to stop the transplanted womb being rejected by the body.
Around a year later, when doctors are confident the transplant is a success, one of the embryos is thawed and implanted into the donated womb.
If the pregnancy is a succes, doctors ultimately deliver the baby via C-section.
Once a woman has successfully carried one or two babies, the transplanted organ is then removed.
Source: Tribune News
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