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Highlights in history The first three patients were transplanted uterus removed A Swedish surgical team worked with the doctors at Baylor...

Highlights in history

• The first three patients were transplanted uterus removed
• A Swedish surgical team worked with the doctors at Baylor

The hospital said in a statement, the experimental procedure was carried out four times between the 14th to 22 September.

The process was not successful for the first three patients, however, and the transplanted organ was removed because no blood flow was sufficient. After the hospital recovering well three patients.

The fourth patient appears on a better path to success. "Your tests show good blood flow to the uterus. There are also no signs of rejection or infection at this time," the statement said.

"We are cautiously optimistic that eventually the first recipient of a transplanted uterus in the US could be to reach the mark of the uterus functionality."

Details of the process or the affected patients were given.

Doctors at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden were the first to meet the experimental procedure with a living donor who made since 2012 nine women have been five successful births throws transplantation. In some cases, the living donor was a relative.

Swedish members of the surgical team worked with the Baylor team, and perform the procedure in patients in Dallas last month, the hospital said. Swedish doctors checked to determine the three transplants failed, what have gone wrong.

Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic performed the first uterus transplantation in the US in February. Lindsey McFarland, a mother of 26 years of three adopted children, received a uterus from a deceased donor. But she developed a yeast infection, leading to complications and removes them newly transplanted uterus. Cleveland Clinic, the procedure of 10 women scheduled to perform with uterine infertility in a clinical trial, but because the process was suspended.

uterine infertility factor is a condition where a woman can not carry a pregnancy because she was born without a uterus, lost her uterus that no longer works. It is irreversible disease that affects most to 5% of women up.

Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston also agreed to maintain the experimental method of performing, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which maintains lists for patients in need of organ donors.