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 19, 2011
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a decision to establish a national center in charge of coordinating the donation and transplants of tissues and human organs, the Vietnam News Agency reported. The center, to be under the authority of the Health Ministry, will be based in Hanoi. The center will be charged with receiving information [...]
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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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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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