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An international team reported the first live birth following transplantation in Sweden of a normal uterus from a 61-year-old healthy parous woman to a 35-year-old woman with congenital absence of the uterus and a single kidney. The recipient began menstruating 43 days after the transplantation and underwent transfer of one cryopreserved embryo at the four-cell stage about 1 year after transplantation (in vitro fertilization with cryopreservation of 11 embryos had been performed prior to the transplant to document the potential for fertility). The patient was maintained on immunosuppression with tacrolimus, azathioprine, and corticosteroids during the pregnancy. Fetal growth parameters and uterine blood flow were normal until the patient de…