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Vietnamese doctors successfully perform first heart-liver transplant
Doctors of the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital have successfully performed the first heart-liver transplant on a single patient.
According to the hospital, the patient who received the organs is a 41-year-old man who had been diagnosed with end-stage heart failure and later acute liver failure two years ago.
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Doctors observe one minute of silence to pay tribute to the brain-dead donor. |
The transplanted organs were taken from a brain-dead donor from Nghe An Province. The 36-year-old man who suffered brain death following a traffic accident donated multiple organs with family consensus.
On October 1, the transplantation was performed successfully after 8 hours by doctors from different departments.
On October 5, the patient was extubated and his heart and liver gradually recovered fully.
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