Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Manh Hung: From "brain-tight" surgeries to the aspiration to elevate surgery at Vinmec

(Dan Tri) - With over 30 years of dedication to digestive surgery, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Manh Hung has associated his name with "brain-weighing" surgeries - complex, rare, sometimes only a few cases have been recorded in the world's medical literature.

That journey continues at Vinmec Smart City, where he hopes to build an international standard gastroenterology - hepatobiliary - urology center.

Choosing the difficult path of surgery and pioneering new techniques

As a medical student, while many of his friends were still searching for a career path, Dr. Tran Manh Hung chose abdominal surgery - a field considered "the most difficult of the difficult". Because hospitalized patients are often in critical condition, with overlapping injuries, directly related to vital organs.

“Every abdominal surgery is like walking on a tightrope. Just one small mistake can take away the patient’s chance of survival,” he shared. But it is this harshness that motivates him to stick with it, because that is where patients need doctors the most.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Manh Hung - Head of General Surgery Department, Vinmec Smart City General Hospital ( Hanoi ).

In more than 30 years of career, Associate Professor, Doctor, Doctor Tran Manh Hung has performed many surgeries recognized as miracles by the international medical community.

One of them is the case of a 23-year-old Laotian woman who suffered burns to her entire upper digestive tract due to corrosive substances. Her esophagus contracted and completely narrowed, making her unable to eat or drink, and her body was exhausted to 34kg. After a month of intensive care to improve her condition, Dr. Hung and his team performed an 8-hour surgery, cutting off the entire esophagus and reconstructing the digestive tract. As a result, after only 8 days, the patient was able to eat porridge on her own - a simple thing but a dream of many months for the young girl.

Another milestone was the case of a pregnant woman in her ninth month of pregnancy who suffered from gastrointestinal bleeding, threatening the lives of both mother and child. When the fetus was so large that it covered the entire abdomen, the team was faced with a situation of “looking for a needle in a haystack”. Dr. Hung’s “brain-weighing” decision at that time - performing surgery and colonoscopy at the same time - promptly detected the injury, saving the lives of both mother and child. The baby’s cry the next day was a meaningful gift for the doctor’s courage and dedication.

Not only is he the “nemesis” of difficult cases, Dr. Hung is also a pioneer in implementing many advanced digestive surgery techniques at Bach Mai Hospital such as: surgery to treat necrotizing pancreatitis, endoscopic surgery to treat esophageal cancer, endoscopic reconstruction of the upper digestive tract... These techniques help patients to have less pain, recover quickly and reduce complications, opening up hope for thousands of cases that were once in a deadlock.

In addition to surgery, he is also an in-depth researcher with dozens of works, 74 scientific articles (9 published in international journals ISI, Scopus) and is the author of many monographs on laparoscopic surgery. To many generations of students, he is known as a dedicated teacher, not only teaching skills but also instilling the passion for the profession and the desire to contribute to humanistic medicine.

New journey at Vinmec Smart City

After more than three decades of working at Bach Mai Hospital - where he performed thousands of complex gastrointestinal surgeries and trained many generations of doctors, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Manh Hung took on the role of Head of the Department of General Surgery, Vinmec Smart City Hospital.

Sharing about this decision, he said: “I have collaborated with colleagues at Vinmec many times and consider it a fate. Vinmec's philosophy of 'caring with talent, medical ethics and empathy' is very much in tune with my career ideal, urging me to choose Vinmec Smart City for the next step.”

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Manh Hung consults and examines patients.

With a modern infrastructure system, an international standard management model and the support of an elite multidisciplinary team, Dr. Hung aims to build the Department of Gastroenterology - Hepatobiliary - Urology at Vinmec Smart City into an excellent treatment center. Here, patients will have access to advanced techniques and receive comprehensive support from diagnosis, treatment to recovery.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Manh Hung shared that joining Vinmec Smart City is not only a new milestone in his personal career, but also an opportunity for him to join the Vinmec academic healthcare system in realizing his aspiration to bring international medical excellence closer to Vietnamese patients.

With the courage of a “golden pair of hands” who has conquered many “brain-weighing” surgeries, along with extensive research and training experience, Dr. Hung is expected to join Vinmec in creating different standards, making this place a trusted address for domestic and foreign patients.

With many outstanding contributions, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Manh Hung has been awarded the title of Emulation Fighter at the grassroots level for 8 consecutive years and was awarded a certificate of merit by the Minister of Health (2011, 2021, 2022).

For consultation and examination with Dr. Tran Manh Hung, please contact to make an appointment through the Vinmec website here or download the MyVinmec application.

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