The world's first next spring, her mother womb transplant

(London 14, Reuters) British 56-year-old woman Ottoson will be an innovation, she has agreed to their womb transplant 25 years old daughter Sarah, if the surgery goes well, will become the world's first successful womb transplant cases .

Sarah was born without reproductive organs, uterus transplant Ottoson want her daughter, so she can conceive a child. Ottoson said: "We both mother and daughter are very rational people, we feel that this is only a uterus. She needs the uterus, and I donated the best person for her womb, the uterus more than she needs me, I have Two daughters, I can see it very useful. "

Uterus transplant next spring, the fastest living in Sweden for Sarah.

Doctors in the estimated 4-hour transplant operation took in the Ottoson Sarah uterus transplant.

Sarah must take strong drugs to ensure their body does not appear on her mother's womb has been the phenomenon of exclusion. If the uterus can be normal in about one year after the operation, Sarah means through IVF to fertilize an egg.

Difficulties in the uterus transplant

Later, fertilized eggs will implant Sarah's womb. With Sarah, the baby will be accepted at term laparotomy to remove the baby. When Sarah no longer need the uterus, it will be removed by doctors.

Their attending physician, said: "Technically, this womb transplant than the kidney, liver or heart transplant surgery more difficult. "

In fact, Saudi Arabia, a 26-year-old woman in 2000 also accepted the donation of a 46-year-old woman the uterus, but health problems after transplantation, the uterus 99 after transplantation was eventually removed.