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Swedish surgeons report world’s first uterus transplantations from mother to daughter
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BMJ
2012;345:e6357
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- Anders Hansen
- 1Stockholm
A team of surgeons at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg has performed the world’s first transplantations of a uterus from a mother to her daughter. The operations were carried out during the weekend of 14 and 15 September, said the Swedish hospital in a statement after the procedures.
The operations involved two donors with their respective daughters as recipients who are in their 30s. One of recipients was born without a uterus and the other had her uterus removed because of cervical cancer. Although …
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