Hope for barren women in UK as surgeons set to perform first womb transplant

Doctors in the UK are preparing for the first womb transplant operations to take place this year.

The pioneering medical technique could see the first baby born as a result of the procedure as early as 2020, one consultant gynaecologist has said.

Richard Smith, who leads researchers at Womb Transplant UK, said he hopes the first transplants will take place before the end of 2018.

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Mr Smith said the prospect of a UK woman being helped to conceive with a transplanted womb is “truly exciting”.

“We have the opportunity to make a real difference,” he told the Daily Mail.

“It’s a major step forward for women with absolute uterine infertility.

“Until now their only options have been adoption or surrogacy, which is not always easy.”

The first successful birth after a womb transplant was achieved in Sweden in 2014.

 

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