According to the World Health Organization - WHO, there are currently more than 330 million cases of hepatitis B and hepatitis C in the world, with 3 million new cases increasing each year, and the number of deaths is alarming at 1.1 million cases/year.

Vietnam is one of the countries with the highest rate of hepatitis in Southeast Asia, estimated at 15-26% of the population. The number of new cases and deaths each year is over 25,000 cases, ranking 4th in the world.

Major General, Professor, Doctor, Doctor Le Trung Hai, President of the Vietnam Liver and Biliary Association and the Vietnam Liver, Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery Association delivered the opening speech at the conference.

Major General, Professor, Doctor, Doctor Le Trung Hai, Chairman of the Vietnam Liver and Gallbladder Association and the Vietnam Liver, Gallbladder and Pancreatic Surgery Association, said that up to now, Vietnam has performed more than 500 liver transplants, 80% of which were taken from living donors.

Because there are no symptoms, viral hepatitis is considered a "silent killer" that silently destroys human health. If the patient is not detected and treated promptly, viral hepatitis can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer, and in the worst case, death.

Conference scene.

For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who are still treatable, Specialist Doctor 2 Nguyen Dinh Song Huy, Department of Liver Tumors, Oncology Center, Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City shared that these cases are all treated with multimodality, improving the limitations of previous methods (surgery, radiofrequency ablation, chemical embolization).

According to the research results of doctors at 108 Military Central Hospital (from July 2021 to June 2023), 58 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who underwent laparoscopic liver resection using Indo-cyanien Green initially had positive results, with no cases requiring open surgery.

New advances in the treatment of Hepatitis, Cirrhosis and Liver Cancer were also announced, including: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy with ICG fluorescence, plasma exchange in the treatment of acute liver failure and acute exacerbation of chronic liver failure, high-frequency ablation in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, portal vein thrombosis surgery via the umbilical vein, etc.

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