Simultaneous heart and liver transplant performed overnight.

In less than 24 hours, doctors and medical staff at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital performed multi-organ harvesting and transplantation at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, while simultaneously providing professional guidance and support to Nghe An Friendship General Hospital in diagnosing, resuscitating, and assessing brain-dead patients, assisting with multi-organ harvesting and kidney transplantation in Nghe An, and urgently transporting livers and hearts to Viet Duc Friendship Hospital for simultaneous heart-liver transplantation for patients with multiple organ failure.

Upon receiving information about the request for assistance in assessing brain-dead patients and supporting organ donation and transplantation surgeries from Nghe An Friendship General Hospital, Dr. Duong Duc Hung, Director of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, immediately organized professional guidance and planned to send a team of experts to provide support. The resuscitation and brain-dead assessment team departed for Nghe An shortly thereafter.

After more than eight hours of intense surgery, the high-tech operation went smoothly. With the collaboration of many specialized units, this was the first multi-organ transplant of heart and liver ever performed in Vietnam, ushering in a new era for organ transplantation in the country.

We take the cornea from a donor.

Preparing for kidney removal.

The kidney harvesting team.

The liver retrieval team.

The heart and liver were transferred to Viet Duc Hospital.

Paying tribute to organ donors.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/xuyen-dem-ghep-dong-thoi-tim-gan-post853337.html