How a 25-year research journey led to the UK's first womb transplant
In short: Surgeons Richard Smith and Isabel Quiroga discuss the landmark 18-hour procedure that took place in early 2023. Learn about the decades of collaboration required to bring this life-changing surgical milestone to the United Kingdom.
This lecture explores the development of the UK's inaugural human womb transplant, a procedure performed between two sisters. The surgery, which lasted nearly 18 hours, was the result of twenty-five years of research and teamwork between specialists from Oxford University Hospitals and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The procedure offers a potential path to motherhood for the one in five thousand UK women born without a viable womb. While the UK has just reached this milestone, the global medical community has seen approximately 100 transplants and 50 births resulting from such procedures since 2013.
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