Doctors perform lung transplant operation at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNS/VNA) – Doctors from the have
announced to successfully conduct the of from a
brain-dead donor on a cancer patient.
Vietnam has so far successfully carried out three transplants of lungs but this
is the first time Vietnamese doctors performed the transplant of two at the
same time successfully.
This was also the first time the Vietnamese doctors could conduct the
complicated transplant without assistance from foreign experts, said hospital
director Tran Binh Giang at a press briefing on December 24.
The transplant of lung was considered the most complicated among organs,
according to Doctor Nguyen Huu Uoc, head of the hospital’s Cardio-vascular and
Thoracic Surgery Department.
Vietnam has so far conducted 3,200 kidney transplant operations, 105 liver
transplant operations, 27 heart transplant operations and only three cases of
lung transplants.
The first two transplants of lungs were performed by Vietnamese doctors and
their foreign partners at Military Hospitals 103 and 108 in Hanoi.
The 17-year-old boy has suffered from Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis,
an uncommon cystic interstitial lung disease without complete treatment
measures. He has been treated for five years at different hospitals and was in
very bad condition before the transplant.
The lungs were donated from a 40-year-old man from the northern province of
Ninh Binh.
It took the 14 hours to perform the life-saving surgery.
Over the past ten days, the patient’s health conditions started to show signs
of recovery, proving technical success of the surgery, according to doctor Uoc.
Together with the lung transplant, doctors
from Viet Duc Hospital performed at the same time a heart transplant for a
60-year-old man, a liver transplant for a 63-year-old woman and a kidney
transplant for a 41-year-old man.
Meanwhile, the Pediatrics Hospital No2 in HCM City conducted another kidney
transplant on a 15-year-old boy with the kidney transported from Vietnam Duc Hospital.
All the organs were donated by the brain-dead man from Ninh Binh province.
In order to carry out the multi-organ transplant operations, Viet Duc Hospital
had to mobilise the participation of more than 100 doctors to perform the
surgery to take out all donated organs from the donor in six hours.
Meanwhile, at the same time, four other surgery rooms at Viet Duc Hospital and
one at Pediatrics Hospital No2 in HCM City were ready to receive and transplant
the organs to the patients.
With this success, Viet Duc Hospital set a new record to perform surgeries to
take and transplant the most organs at the same time.
Over the last five years, there were
19,300 donors that were brain dead or had no heartbeat, according to the
National Coordination Centre for Organ Transplantation.
In 2013, the centre was set up because organ donation in the country had been
limited.
After a seven-year-old girl from Hanoi, Nguyen Hai
An, donated her cornea to two people – a
73-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man – in February of this year, the centre
received thousands of organ and tissue donor registrations.
This year, the centre has cooperated with Vietnam Airlines to transport tissue
and organs on its flights for free.-VNS/VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
