Texas hospital does 4 uterus transplants from live donors

ADDS DATE AND IDENTIFICATIONS - In this Sept. 14, 2016 photo provided by Baylor Scott & White Health, surgeons remove a donor's uterus to perform a living donor uterine transplant during a clinical trial at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. From left are Drs. Greg McKenna, Giuliano Testa, Colin Koon, and Liza Johannesson. On Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, the hospital said four women who had been born without a uterus received one in operations in September. Three of the wombs have had to be removed because of poor blood flow, but a hospital statement says the fourth recipient still has hers and is showing no signs of rejection. (Baylor Scott & White Health via AP) (Courtesy Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas)

Texas doctors have done the first womb transplants using live donors in the United States.

Four women who had been born without a uterus received one in operations last month at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

Three of the wombs have had to be removed because of poor blood flow, but a hospital statement says the fourth recipient still has hers and is showing no signs of rejection.

There have been at least 16 previous uterus transplants worldwide, including one in Cleveland that had to be removed because of complications. Two doctors from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, which has done the most of these operations, were in Dallas to assist with the four transplants there.

At least five births have resulted from the womb transplants in Sweden.