The study showed that uterine transplantation is an effective and safe method of treating infertility if the recipient does not have a normally functioning organ. It is possible that in the near future these procedures will be carried out much more frequently.
Until recently, women with uterine pathologies were waiting for irreversible infertility – they had no options for correcting this problem. And now this option has appeared – uterus transplantation. The largest-scale study of the effectiveness of this surgical procedure and its impact on the female body. It was conducted by scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
The study covers living donor uterine transplants, which were carried out at the clinic at the University of Gothenburg and some other medical institutions in Sweden. After 7 out of 9 transplantations, in vitro fertilization was performed. In a group of 7 women, 6 or 86% conceived normally and gave birth to babies. Moreover, three had two children, so the total number of babies born after this procedure was 9.
In terms of the so-called clinical pregnancy rate, the study showed that transplanted wombs gave excellent IVF results. The chance of pregnancy for a single embryo returned to the transplanted uterus was 33%, which is no different from the success rate of IVF among normal women. Of course, not very many women took part in the study, but the uterus transplant procedure itself is not yet common. (READ MORE) 
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a public higher education institution in Sweden. GU began operations in 1891. The university has an urban campus in Gothenburg