Uterine transplantation pairs specialists from fields known for innovation and for pushing medical and ethical limits. Picture: ISTOCK CLEVELAND, Ohio — Six doctors swarmed around the body of the dead organ donor and quickly started to operate. The kidneys came out first. Then the team began another delicate dissection, to remove an organ that is rarely, if ever, taken from a donor. Ninety minutes later they had it, resting in the palm of a surgeon’s hand: the uterus. The surgery was a practice run. In the next few months, surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio expect to become the first in the US to transplant a uterus. The recipients will be women who were either born without a uterus,...
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