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Doctors carry out first successful womb transplant

Doctors carry out first successful womb transplant
By Fiona Macrae and Vanessa Allen
2:26 PM Saturday May 26, 2012

Doctors have carried out the world's first successful womb transplant in a breakthrough that could allow thousands of young women to fulfil their dream of motherhood.

Derya Sert, who was born without a womb, received a healthy organ from a woman in a complex seven-hour operation.

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