Aimee Cunningham in Science News:
Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine factor infertility, occurs when a woman is born without a uterus, has had to have it removed or has a defective organ.
For women with this type of infertility who would like to experience pregnancy, researchers and clinicians have developed a new surgical procedure: uterus transplantation. In 2014, the first birth after this procedure took place in Sweden, with the first U.S. birth after uterus transplantation three years later. In the last decade, more than 70 babies have been born globally following this surgery. The uteruses come from both living and deceased donors.
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