9 Swedish Women Receive Womb Transplants, Will Try To Get Pregnant
Transplant Surgery In September 2011, University of Gothenburg physicians performed the world's first mother-to daughter uterus transplantation. Sahlgrenska akademin / You Tube Nine Swedish women have successfully received transplanted wombs donated by family members, and will soon try to have children, the AP reports. There have been no major complications following the surgeries, and every woman left the hospital within days. The transplants are part of the largest effort yet to produce children from tranplanted uteri, which hasn't yet been accomplished: There have been two previous attempts to transplant a womb — in Turkey and Saudi Arabia — but both failed to produce babies. Scientists in Britain, Hungary and elsewhere are also planning similar operations but the efforts in Sweden are the most advanced. "This is a new kind of...