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LONDON — The world’s first birth from a transplanted womb was announced Friday.

Details of the birth are being closely guarded, but it is believed it took place in Sweden where surgeons have performed pioneering surgery.

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Fertility experts in Britain said they were preparing to carry out a similar procedure in this country next year. It could help 14,000 British women carry their own child.

The breakthrough was reported by The Lancet medical journal on its website last night. It is thought the birth occurred within the last month after doctors transplanted wombs into several women who had a rare genetic condition that meant they were born without their own womb.

In January, one of the patients underwent in-vitro fertilization treatment that resulted in an embryo being transferred to her new womb. The donated womb came from the woman’s own mother, so the baby is also the first born to a woman using the same womb from which she emerged herself.