Hue Central Hospital in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has successfully performed its 13th heart transplant, bringing life to a male patient with end-stage heart failure. The hospital also establishes a new record for heart transplants in Vietnam.
The University Medical Centre in Ho Chi Minh City has announced a major medical achievement—the successful completion of its first heart transplant. The heart, donated by a young man in Hanoi, was transported across the country and transplanted into a recipient in Ho Chi Minh City. The entire process, from the moment the heart was harvested in Hanoi until it began beating again in the recipient's body, took just 10 hours.
Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital has announced the successful completion of a heart transplant for a seven-year-old girl diagnosed with end-stage heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy.
Organs from a brain-dead donor have been successfully transplanted into six patients by the Cho Ray Hospital and the Children’s Hospital No 2 in Ho Chi Minh City.
Doctors at Hanoi’s Viet Duc Friendship Hospital has successfully conducted a heart transplant on a seven-year-old child, the youngest recipient ever in Vietnam, the hospital said on February 5.
The two patients transplanted with a heart and a kidney donated by a brain dead person in Hanoi are in sound condition and ready to be discharged from the hospital, Dr. Pham Thi Ngoc Thao, Deputy Director of the HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital said on March 19.
The first patient who had successfully underwent a heart transplant in the southern region was discharged from Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital on June 21, just 22 days after the surgery.
Doctors at Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh City successfully carried out a heart transplant for the first time, with support from doctors of Hanoi’s Vietnam – Germany Hospital.
