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World’s 2nd bone marrow transplant for rare disease done in Vietnam 

January 18, 2012
World’s 2nd bone marrow transplant for rare disease done in Vietnam 

  Nguyen Viet Anh, 5, before (L) and 110 days after getting a bone marrow transplant to treat epidermolysis bullosa (EB) at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi Vietnam has become only the second country in the world to successfully use stem cell transplant to treat Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), an inherited connective tissue disease [...]

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Vietnam ‘cures’ first blister patient with marrow transplant 

November 2, 2011
Vietnam ‘cures’ first blister patient with marrow transplant 

  Nguyen Viet Anh with blisters on the skin before the treatment (L) and after 40 days of getting a bone marrow stem cell transplant (R). Vietnam has seen its first successful bone marrow stem cell transplant to cure lethal skin blisters, saving the life of a four- year-old boy, a Hanoi doctor said. Nguyen [...]

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HCMC hospital to conduct first liver transplant on adults 

June 13, 2011
HCMC hospital to conduct first liver transplant on adults 

  Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital will be the first one in southern Vietnam to conduct liver transplants on adult patients this July, it announced Friday. Two patients, who have cirrhosis and liver cancer respectively, have been selected for the first surgeries this year. They are aged 32 and 57. Funding for the [...]

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Vietnam conducts first solo heart transplant 

March 10, 2011

  Vietnam successfully performed its first human heart transplant, without foreign assistance, in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Wednesday (March 2). The five-hour surgery was conducted by Bui Duc Phu, director of Hue Central Hospital, with assistance from nearly 100 hospital staff. The patient, 26-year-old Tran Mau Duc, received the heart from a [...]

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50 children a year need liver transplants in Vietnam

December 12, 2009
50 children a year need liver transplants in Vietnam

Vietnam has had 14 liver transplant cases so far, 50 percent of which were performed by the HCM City-based Children’s Hospital N.2.  Hospital deputy director Truong Quang Dinh said that although hospital fees are partly covered by health insurance, 265 million dong for a liver transplant surgery is still too high for most patients. To [...]

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British transplant girl healthy after donor heart removed

July 15, 2009
British transplant girl healthy after donor heart removed

Hannah Clark, 16, poses for photographs in central London, on Monday A British girl who had a donor heart grafted onto her own after suffering cardiac failure as a baby has had the transplant removed and is living a healthy life with her own heart, doctors said Tuesday. The case of Hannah Clark is thought [...]

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Connie Culp: First U.S. face transplant recipient revealed

May 7, 2009
Connie Culp: First U.S. face transplant recipient revealed

An Ohio woman, who underwent near-total surgery on her face after a shot gun blast from her husband five years ago left her without a nose, revealed the results of her surgery for the first time before public. Connie Culp, a 46-year-old mother-of-two, is the recipient of the first U.S. almost-total face transplant that took [...]

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Singaporean has Asia’s first combined heart, liver transplant

April 25, 2009
Singaporean has Asia’s first combined heart, liver transplant

Lau Chin Kwee (R), a 58-year-old Singaporean pastor, is seen Friday with his son after a successful heart and liver transplant at a hospital in Singapore. A 58-year-old Singaporean pastor has undergone a simultaneous heart and liver transplant, the first time such an operation has been carried out in Asia, doctors said Friday. The 13-hour [...]

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World’s first hands, face transplant

April 8, 2009
World’s first hands, face transplant

French doctors Christian Dumontier (R) and Laurent Lantieri (L) give a press conference, on April 6 after they performed the world’s first simultaneous transplants of a new face and both hands including the wrists In a world first, French surgeons replaced in a single operation the face and both hands of a man horribly disfigured [...]

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Study: Urine test can detect common cause of kidney transplant failure

January 22, 2009
Study: Urine test can detect common cause of kidney transplant failure

A new and simple urine test that can detect a common cause of kidney transplant failure may help lead to better diagnosis and treatment of patients with polyomavirus nephropathy, which affects up to nine percent of kidney transplant recipients. While polyomaviruses are normally occurring viruses that harmlessly infect many adults, they can pose serious health [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...