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Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH)
It is a rare condition that affects around one in every 5,000 women. In MRKH, women have an underdeveloped vagina and underdeveloped or missing womb.
The first sign of the condition is when a teenage girl does not have periods. However, their ovaries are intact and still function to produce eggs and female hormones, making conceiving via fertility treatment a possibility.
Recently a woman in the UK successfully underwent a womb transplant operation, the donor was her older 40 year old sister who already has two children and does not wish to have more.
The 34-year-old married woman, whose sister was the living donor, received the womb during an operation lasting nine hours and 20 minutes carried out at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.
If the woman does have a baby she has a choice – six months later – of a complete hysterectomy or to go and have another baby, the latter being her preferred choice.
Before receiving her new womb, the woman had two rounds of fertility stimulation to produce eggs, followed by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) to create embryos. Eight embryos have reached blastocyst stage – which means they have a good chance of success in IVF – and were frozen for when the patient undergoes treatment at the Lister Fertility Clinic in central London later this year.
The transplant is expected to last for a maximum of five years before the womb is removed. A second UK womb transplant on another woman is scheduled to take place this autumn, with more patients in the preparation stages.
Professor Smith said the day of the surgery, which involved more than 30 staff, was a “big and long day”.
The operation to remove the older sister’s womb took eight hours and 12 minutes.
An hour before the womb was extracted, surgeons began operating on the younger sister.
“All of the surgical staff met at 7am and we were back in our hotel at 6.30am the following morning,” Professor Smith said.
The operation had been delayed for more than two years due to the pandemic. Before surgery, both sisters underwent extensive counselling and were reviewed by gynaecologists, transplant surgeons, obstetricians, psychologists, anaesthetists and pharmacists.
They were also assessed by a Human Tissue Authority (HTA) independent assessor to ensure they were aware of the risks and to confirm they were entering into the surgery of their own free will. The case was also reviewed by an HTA panel before permission was granted to proceed.
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Recently a woman in the UK successfully underwent a womb transplant operation, the donor was her older 40 year old sister who already has two children and does not wish to have more.
