Anil Gudi: Uterine Transplantation – How Difficult Medical Innovation Should Happen
Anil Gudi, Medical Consultant at Fertility Plus, shared on LinkedIn։
“One of the most fascinating lectures at NARTURE 2026 in Rome was Professor Mats Brännström’s account of uterine transplantation.
What struck me was how an idea that once sounded almost impossible became a clinical treatment.
The work began nearly 30 years ago, moving carefully through animal models, transplantation surgery, immunology, and IVF before the first live birth following uterine transplantation in Sweden in 2014.
Today, more than 180 procedures and over 80 births have been reported worldwide.
But the lecture was about much more than the numbers. It was a lesson in how difficult medical innovation should happen: slowly, systematically, with complications examined rather than hidden, and with the donor, recipient and child all considered.
For women born without a functioning uterus, or who have lost one through disease or treatment, this has opened a possibility that simply did not exist before.
A remarkable piece of reproductive medicine – and an equally interesting story of how an extraordinary idea becomes real clinical science.”
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