January 18, 2012
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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November 2, 2011
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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June 13, 2011
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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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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December 12, 2009
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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July 15, 2009
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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May 7, 2009
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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April 25, 2009
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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April 8, 2009
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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January 22, 2009
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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