Viet Duc Hospital conducts 1000th kidney transplant
VOV.VN - Doctors at Viet Duc Hospital successfully performed their 1000th kidney transplant, with a 49-year old patient in Hanoi being the recipient of the landmark operation.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quang Nghia, director of Viet Duc’s Organ Transplantation Center, said the patient had been suffering from chronic kidney failure since 2017. Indeed, by January he had reached end-stage chronic kidney disease and was forced to undergo hemodialysis three times a week at the hospital.
Dr. Nghia added that without receiving a kidney transplant, the patient would have to be on a lifelong dialysis and have hemodialysis for the rest of their life, which would ultimately affect the heart function, increase the risk of infection, along with other related diseases.
In total, it took approximately three hours for doctors to complete the operation. At present, the patient is now in a stable health condition and is capable of eating normally after ten days. Moving forward, he is expected be discharged from the hospital.
According to Dr. Ninh Viet Khai, deputy director of the Organ Transplantation Center, Viet Duc Hospital leads the way in conducting organ transplants from brain-dead donors, with 122 kidney transplant operations being performed from these donors since 2002.
