Fact Sheets

The UK Womb Transplant Programmes and Procedure
5 patients with live related donors and 10 patients seeking donated wombs from deceased donors
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Who is Eligible – Patients and Donors
The latest research tells us that one in every 5,000 females is born without a viable womb although most will have perfectly functioning ovaries and the ability of producing healthy…
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Progress since the year 2000
Since the there have been uterus transplants performed by teams in other countries, with published cases in Australia, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany, Lebanon, Serbia, France and Spain. As at…
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The Wider WombTransplantUK team
The UK womb transplant research team has brought together over 25 people from a wide variety of medical specialities from seven different hospitals. The current UK team members are as…
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Introduction
Professor Richard Smith and a small team of other gynaecologists and experts in infertility began researching the possibility of transplanting a viable womb into a woman either born without a…
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