Cleveland Clinic doctors are ready to have a detailed discussion over the first uterus transplant performed in the United States. The medical team has decided to reveal the details.

Late last month, the Cleveland Clinic doctors conducted a surgery on a 26-year-old woman, who was without uterus. It was a complicated nine-hour surgery.

Some details were made available by the hospital. The statement informed that donor uterus belonged to a woman who had died. The hospital made an announcement last fall that it would try 10 transplants under a clinical trial.

Many nations have attempted womb transplants. In 2014, Sweden reported the first successful birth, with five healthy babies until now. Doctors in Sweden said that the still-experimental treatment could be a substitute for some of the thousands of women who can’t conceive because they were born without a uterus or have to get it removed because of some disease.

People have queries over whether the transplant would be a realistic option for a lot of women as some might decline the organ and the procedure demands intake of potent immune-suppressing drugs.

Dr. Andreas Tzakis from the Cleveland Clinic said the extent of danger isn’t greater than other transplants. Dr. Tzakis mentioned that the surgery has been considered life-enhancing, such as that of face or hand transplantation. However, unlike any other transplants, uterus transplants aren’t permanent.

Last year, in a statement announcing the study, Dr. Tzakis said, “They are not intended to last for the duration of the recipient's life, but will be maintained for only as long as is necessary to produce one or two children”.

Uterus removal from a dead donor demands more than just usual hysterectomy because the main arteries also need to be removed. Doctors sew the womb and blood vessels in the recipient's pelvis. Before shutting the abdomen, surgeons look out for good blood flow. They check whether the attachment to the ligaments is powerful enough to manage a pregnancy or not.