Uterus transplantation

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Uterus transplantation or uterine transplant is the surgical procedure whereby a healthy uterus is transplanted into an organism whose uterus is absent or diseased. The uterus forms part of the normal mammalian sexual reproduction process and a diseased or absent uterus does not allow for normal embryonic implantation to occur. Therefore, this results into a type of female infertility which is known as uterine factor infertility (UFI). The world's first successful uterine transplant was conducted by a team of doctors from Akdeniz University Hospital in southern Turkey on the 9th of August 2011...