Vu Thi Hue (left), Le Thi Anh Hong (centre) and Thai Minh Sam, head of ’s Department of Urology (Photo: VNA)HCM
City (VNA) – Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City have
successfully performed the country’s first living paired-kidney exchange
transplant.
The
surgery was successful and the four patients are in stable condition, according
to Dr Thai Minh Sam, head of the hospital’s urology department.
Nguyen
Thi Hue, 58, volunteered to donate one of her kidneys to her daughter Vu Thi
Hue, 32, from Kien Giang province who had end-stage renal disease and has been
on dialysis since June 2014.
But
she and her daughter did not match well, Sam said at a press meeting held
yesterday.
Another
pair in the same situation, Le Thi Anh Hong, 31, from Dak Nong province with
end-stage renal disease, has been on dialysis since April 2015.
Hong’s
stepfather, Truong Ngoc Xuan, 51, could not donate one of his own kidneys to
his daughter as they were incompatible.
Paired
donation matches an incompatible donor and recipient to another pair in the
same situation.
Doctors
at Cho Ray Hospital carefully consulted opinions from leading experts in kidney
transplant and explained the procedure to two donor/recipient pairs who agreed
to undergo paired kidney exchange.
Hue’s
mother gave one of her own kidneys to Hong. In exchange, Hong’s stepfather, Xuan,
donated one of his own kidneys to Hue.
Doctors
removed the kidneys from the donors in the morning and transplanted them in the
recipients on January 11.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
