Male soldier revived from brain-dead organ donor

After 4 hours of surgery, the transplant was completed, the patient was fully awake and was transferred to the Department of Surgical Resuscitation and Organ Transplantation for continued monitoring and treatment.

On June 25, 108 Central Military Hospital announced that its doctors had successfully performed a liver transplant on a male soldier.

Previously, on June 23, the Hospital received information from the National Organ Transplant Coordination Center that at Hospital E there was a brain-dead patient due to a traffic accident and the patient's family agreed to donate organs to save lives.

Immediately afterwards, a team of doctors from the 108 Military Central Hospital urgently went to E Hospital to retrieve the liver organ for timely transplantation to the patient waiting for a transplant.

On the evening of June 23, the Hospital Director decided to convene the liver transplant subcommittee to consult online about the transplant. Doctors went to E Hospital to perform surgery to remove the liver and brought it back to the hospital at 2am on June 24 for transplantation to the patient, in which the left lobe of the donor's liver was coordinated for the child patient at Vinmec Hospital.

After the donated liver was coordinated to the 108 Military Central Hospital, due to prior preparation for patients with transplant indications, the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Department quickly identified the patient for the transplant. That was a male soldier, working at the 12th Army Corps, the patient had multifocal hepatocellular carcinoma on the background of cirrhosis due to hepatitis B and was indicated for a liver transplant.

The liver transplant team worked through the night to perform the transplant. After 4 hours of surgery, the transplant was completed, the patient was fully awake and was transferred to the Department of Surgical Resuscitation and Organ Transplantation for further monitoring and treatment.

Major General Le Huu Song - Director of 108 Military Central Hospital shared: “Organ transplantation is a professional matter, but organ donation is a humane act, a story of conscience contributing to building a humane and compassionate society. Brain-dead organ donors, to us, not only leave this life but also leave behind a part of their body to continue living, to continue contributing in another person's body. We would like to express our gratitude for this noble act of the donor and his family.”

Upon receiving information about the donated liver organ that was compatible with his body, the transplant patient could not hide his emotion at the noble and humane act of the donor's family that gave him a chance to live./.

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/nam-quan-nhan-duoc-hoi-sinh-su-song-tu-nguoi-hien-tang-chet-nao-post1046400.vnp