UK’s first womb transplant a ‘massive success’ after sister’s donation

The operation lasted over nine hours 

The surgical team behind the UK's first womb transplant.

Surgeons have performed the UK’s first womb transplant on a woman whose sister was the living donor.

The 34-year-old married woman received the womb – also called the uterus – during an operation lasting nine hours and 20 minutes carried out at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.