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RCOG World Congress 2025

June 23 - 25, 2025 | ExCeL London, UK

EP.1166

The UK’s First Uterus Transplant Clinic: A Service Evaluation

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Poster Presenter

Ariadne L'Heveder

Authors

Ariadne L'Heveder, Saaliha Vali, Srdjan Saso, Clare Snelgrove, Etohan Ogbemudia, Venkatesha Udupa, Isabel Quiroga, Benjamin Jones, Richard Smith

Affiliations

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Lister Fertility Clinic

Part of Topic

Hot topics (emerging research/issues) in gynaecology

The UK’s First Uterus Transplant Clinic: A Service Evaluation

Background:

Uterine transplantation (UTx) has been proven to be a viable fertility treatment for absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI) with over 70 live births from more than 130 transplants

The UK UTx team now run two UTx programmes:

•The INSITU (INvestigational Study Into Transplantation of the Uterus) deceased donor (DBD) clinic trial

•The living donor (LD) clinical programme

Methods

A retrospective service evaluation of the first 18 months’ activity of the UTx clinic was undertaken

Results

Patient pathway

Clinic Activity

Recipient Characteristics

Motivations for pursuing UTx

Conclusion

There is a clear demand for UTx, with the UK clinic providing the only pathway for patients to access UTx in the UK.

Now that UTx has been shown to be a viable fertility restoring treatment for people with AUFI, a long-term funding model needs to be established to sustain both the LD and DBD programmes