First womb transplant in UK successful, know in detail how woman born without uterus will be mother
Womb transplant successful
The woman was born without a uterus. Her 40-year-old sister, a mother of two, came out to help her and donated her uterus. Talking about the successful surgery, Professor Richard Smith, one of two lead surgeons, who had carried out the operation, said that it had been a massive success. He shared the joy of the operation and said that they were in tears.
Womb transplant at Churchill Hospital
The operation was carried out in February at Oxford's Churchill Hospital by a team of more than 30 medical staff. The operation to remove the womb from the donor’s body lasted for eight hours, while another team of doctors took more than nine hours to put the womb in the body of the recipient.
Womb transplant: ‘Remarkable achievement’
It costs about GBP 25,000, excluding the fees of the medical staff involved in the surgery. Dr. Raj Mathur, Chairman of British Fertility Society called it ‘a remarkable achievement’. He said that it was the dawn of a new age, a new era in the treatment of these patients. He said that prior to this surgery doctors had not been successful in treating the patients who had no uterus.
Isabel Quiroga, consultant surgeon at the Oxford Transplant Centre said that she and her fellow doctors planned such an operation before the pandemic.
30 Womb transplant surgeries planned
Doctors in the U.K. have planned 30 transplants in a year and focus on the living donation of a uterus from a relative of the patient. Quiroga has said that many women have contacted charities and expressed the desire to help other women. Some said that they had children and they want to help others while others said that they didn't want to have children and would love others to have kids.
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