Doctors at in HCM City perform the country’s first ABO-incompatible kidney transplant on a 54-year-old man with end-stage renal disease. (Photo courtesy of the hospital)HCM City (VNS/VNA) – Cho Ray
Hospital in has successfully conducted the country’s first
ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transplant.
Tran Thi Hanh, 51, of Ben Tre province
volunteered to donate one of her kidneys to her husband, Vi Van Biet, 54, who
had end-stage renal disease and has been on dialysis for more than a year.
Her blood type is A and his is B.
The surgery was done on December 29 and the
couple are now in stable condition.
To prepare for the transplant, the patient
received treatment to lower antibody levels in his blood and reduce the risk of
his antibodies rejecting the donor kidney, doctors said.
Assoc Prof Thai Minh Sam, head of the
hospital’s department of urology, said around 300 patients register for a
kidney transplant at the hospital every year, but only a third of them undergo
surgery due to various reasons, including having a living donor with a
different blood type.
ABO-incompatible kidney transplant is
performed in many countries, and the hospital has sent doctors and surgeons to
leading hospitals abroad to learn the procedure in recent years, Sam said.
Given
the severe shortage of deceased donors, the living donor
kidney transplant would help more patients who are on dialysis to get a
transplant, he added./.
Source: VietnamPlus
