Vietnamese doctors successfully perform first heart-kidney transplant

February 24, 2023

Due to ineffective treatment, he was instructed by doctors to have a heart and kidney transplant. After careful evaluation, the hospital's experts agreed to perform a simultaneous heart and kidney transplant for the patient with donated organs from a brain-dead donor. This was the first time Vietnamese doctors have successfully performed a transplant of heart and kidney organs on one patient. Two years ago, Việt Nam-Germany Hospital doctors conducted a liver and kidney transplant on a patient. The Việt Nam-Germany Hospital led the country in organ transplants and has performed more than 1,500 of these surgeries.

The source of this news is from Vietnam News