A historic milestone has been achieved in the United Kingdom as surgeons conducted the first-ever womb transplant on a woman on Wednesday.
An unidentified source told the UK Guardian that a 34-year-old married recipient from England underwent a nine-hour transplant procedure.
The married woman was born with a rare condition, meaning her original womb was underdeveloped. She received a donor womb from her 40-year-old sister, who already had two children.
The recipient, diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, a rare congenital reproductive disorder affecting one in 5,000 women, had an underdeveloped vagina and the absence of a womb.
Isabel Quiroga, a consultant surgeon at the Oxford Transplant Centre, expressed her delight and immense pride in the successful outcome of the surgery.
In a February operation at Churchill Hospital in Oxford, the recipient, who resided in England and preferred to remain anonymous, underwent a nine-hour and 20-minute surgery to receive her sister’s uterus.
Remarkably, she recovered well and was discharged after ten days.
