Tables and Figures
Figure 1 . Drainage vein options for uterus transplantation.
In the gold standard of uterine transplantation, the uterine veins from
the internal iliac vein are used as drainage veins. However, this
surgery is challenging because these vessels are located in the deep
pelvic floor and surround the ureter. To minimise the invasiveness of
living-donor surgery, the use of the ovarian vein or the utero-ovarian
vein—which runs continuously from the ovarian vein through the
mesosalpinx—as the drainage vein, has been considered as an
alternative to the use of the uterine vein. Ut, uterus; UV, uterine
vein; UOV, utero-ovarian vein; OV, ovarian vein
Figure 2 . Flowchart of article selection.
On 13 October, 2020, an article search was conducted on PubMed according
to the search strategy. Of 2382 articles, 26 original articles were
finally included in the review. They include the operative and clinical
outcome data of the UTx living donor. UTx, uterine transplantation
Table 1 . Reported operative and clinical data of living-donor
surgery for uterus transplantation
Table 2 . Operative and clinical data for each operative
approach with or without using the uterine vein