at HCM City’s a heart donated by a brain-dead donor in a 47-year-old man who suffered from heart failure and possibly had little chance of survival without the transplant. (Photo courtesy of the hospital)
HCM City (VNA) – Doctors at HCM City’s Cho Ray Hospital have
successfully performed a heart transplant on a 47-year-old man with heart taken
from a brain-dead woman donor from Hanoi.
The recipient, who had suffered heart failure many years, received the heart
last month, according to the hospital.
Doctors said his heart, liver, kidney and respiratory functions are stable.
The hospital’s doctors have successfully performed five transplants with
the brain-dead donors in the last five years. They were assisted by doctors
from Viet Duc Hospital in the first four, but in the latest case they carried out
the procedure independently./.
Source: VietnamPlus
