Swedish doctors announce two mother-to-daughter uterus transplants
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Photo: From left specialist surgeons Andreas G Tzakis, Pernilla Dahm-Kahler and Mats Brannstrom of the University of Gothenburg attend a news conference Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012 at Sahlgrenska hospital in Goteborg,Sweden. Two Swedish women are carrying the wombs of their mothers after what doctors called the world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants. (Credit: AP)
(CBS/AP) Surgeons in Sweden say they have performed the world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants "without complications."
Doctors from the University of Gothenburg on Tuesday said two women in their 30s received wombs from their mothers in surgical procedures on Sept. 15 and 16.
Woman hopes to have child using womb donated by own mother
The university said one recipient had her uterus removed many years ago due to cervical cancer and the other was born without a uterus.
Team leader Mats Brannstrom said both "are doing fine but are tired after surgery. The donating mothers are up and walking and will be discharged from the hospital within a few days."
"We are not going to call it a complete success until this results in children," added Michael Olausson, one of the Swedish surgeons, to The Associated Press. "That's the best proof."
Brannstom said in a video released by the hospital that he first got the idea for such a transplant in 1998 after he removed the uterus of a young woman with cancer. The woman then suggested to him, "Why don't you transplant the uterus from my mother to me," he said, and he began researching the project the following year.
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Photo: From left specialist surgeons Andreas G Tzakis, Pernilla Dahm-Kahler and Mats Brannstrom of the University of Gothenburg attend a news conference Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012 at Sahlgrenska hospital in Goteborg,Sweden. Two Swedish women are carrying the wombs of their mothers after what doctors called the world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants. (Credit: AP)
(CBS/AP) Surgeons in Sweden say they have performed the world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants "without complications."
Doctors from the University of Gothenburg on Tuesday said two women in their 30s received wombs from their mothers in surgical procedures on Sept. 15 and 16.
Woman hopes to have child using womb donated by own mother
The university said one recipient had her uterus removed many years ago due to cervical cancer and the other was born without a uterus.
Team leader Mats Brannstrom said both "are doing fine but are tired after surgery. The donating mothers are up and walking and will be discharged from the hospital within a few days."
"We are not going to call it a complete success until this results in children," added Michael Olausson, one of the Swedish surgeons, to The Associated Press. "That's the best proof."
Brannstom said in a video released by the hospital that he first got the idea for such a transplant in 1998 after he removed the uterus of a young woman with cancer. The woman then suggested to him, "Why don't you transplant the uterus from my mother to me," he said, and he began researching the project the following year.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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