According to the Dailyexpress of October 10, Swedish scientists are on the brink of a womb transplant which will let infertile women become pregnant. Following successful animal trials, doctors hope to try the transplant with a human within two years。
The results of the trials, which involved highly complex surgery and new anti-rejection drugs, will be announced at a meeting with potential patients next week。
"Until now no one has been able to prove pregnancy is possible after transplantation. We have overcome one of the last steps in achieving this and our aim is to get a human pregnancy using these techniques within two years," said Professor Mats Brännström, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, "This is a clinical situation comparable to transplantation between unrelated humans."
The work has raised the prospect of creating a male pregnancy with a donor's uterus and fertility treatment, however Dr Diaz-Garcia insisted: "We are not carrying out work in this area." The doctor predicted that in the future wombs could be harvested from people who are brain-dead, living donors or even relatives to minimize the risk of rejection。
The transplanted womb would be connected to the recipient's blood supply and would stay in place only long enough for a woman to have the children she wanted。
Any baby would have to be delivered by Caesarean section as a transplanted human womb would be unlikely to withstand natural labour. During the C-section the womb could be removed at the same time, thereby minimising the risk of side effects from longer term use of anti-rejection drugs。