After Swedish success with womb transplants, The UK is to follow suit

[axelord157]

Source: [URL]http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2015/10/03/Womb-transplants-begin-in-UK-after-Swedens-success/8541443890863/[/URL]

[QUOTE]Reports of the U.K. trial approval come after Swedish doctors found success from uterus transplants in recent years. Last year, [URL="http://www.upi.com/blog/2014/01/13/Nine-Swedish-women-receive-uterus-transplants/4331389644237/"]nine Swedish women[/URL] received the reproductive organs from living family members. In October of that year, a woman from the trial became the first in the world to give birth from a transplanted womb from a live donor.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]"Over the years I have quite a lot of crisis with this project," he said. "But when you meet the women who have been born without a uterus, or who have had their uterus removed for one reason or another, this is really heart-rending stuff and that is what has kept us going."[/QUOTE]

[Keyblockor1]

This is fucking amazing and a big leap.

[JennyC6]

I wonder if the procedure includes the ovaries of the donor or not.

[myon]

Amazing. One has to wonder if this can one day be done as a part of a gender reassignment surgery.

[SentientToilet]

[QUOTE=Limed00d;48839018]Amazing. One has to wonder if this can one day be done as a part of a gender reassignment surgery.[/QUOTE]

I support this so much. It would be a big step forward.

[Zonesylvania]

article does say that the transplanted wombs are good only for two pregnancies, and must be removed to prevent lifelong dependency on corticosteroids, but this is still an amazing achievement.

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;48839028]article does say that the transplanted wombs are good only for two pregnancies, and must be removed to prevent lifelong dependency on corticosteroids, but this is still an amazing achievement.[/QUOTE]

Not to sound edgy but if you aren't planning to use your womb ever again I can imagine it's something you will gladly get rid of if there is chance of further complications, I mean, the womb itself doesn't even secret hormones or anything that would otherwise influence you, does it? It's literally a baby containment sack and nutritional interface.

It's not like chopping the nads off a guy as that fucks with his chemical balance and changes his personality forever, is it? (again I am not 100% sure there please don't hurt me)

[editline]6th October 2015[/editline]

I personally know multiple people who have like, mechanically biological issues with their womb and during period, it leads to bleeding so excessive that it can be life threatening, and that's somebody who has a womb who they have been born with. I can imagine that if you mix and match parts around, the risk of a problem like that is probably increased simply because the parts will fit only ever so much, and if the organ won't ever have any functional purpose again, getting rid of it might be for the best.