Four lives revived thanks to organ transplant of a 39-year-old male patient

The heart, liver, and cornea of ​​a brain-dead patient in Phu Yen have helped revive the lives of four people in Hue after organ transplants.

Doctors at Hue Central Hospital performed a heart transplant from Mr. NHN ( Phu Yen ) to a heart failure patient in Hue - Photo: THUONG HIEN

On the morning of June 19, Hue Central Hospital announced that its doctors had successfully performed four simultaneous organ transplants including heart, liver and cornea thanks to cross-country donations from Ho Chi Minh City.

Transplants were performed overnight, saving the lives of critically ill patients.

On June 12, Hue Central Hospital received information about coordinating tissues and organs from brain-dead donors transferred by the National Coordination Center for Human Organ Transplantation.

A male patient named NHN (39 years old, from Phu Yen) was admitted to the emergency room due to a very severe traumatic brain injury, brain contusion, cerebral hemorrhage, and deep coma. Despite dedicated treatment, due to his serious condition, Mr. N. is unlikely to survive.

After being carefully explained, the family made a very noble gesture of agreeing to donate tissues, organs, and body parts when the patient was brain dead.

As soon as receiving the news, the hospital's leadership immediately set up a team of doctors to go to Ho Chi Minh City to coordinate with Thong Nhat Hospital and 108 Military Central Hospital to retrieve the heart, liver and cornea.

Due to the lack of convenient flights, the medical team had to travel by car to Da Nang to catch the flight departing at 1:30 p.m. on June 13. Thanks to close coordination between units, the entire process of organ retrieval and transportation was carried out quickly, helping the flight to Hue depart earlier than scheduled, landing safely at Phu Bai airport at 10:28 p.m. the same day.

That same night, heart, liver and cornea transplants were urgently performed.

The donated heart was transplanted into a patient with end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy, whose heart function was almost non-existent and who had suffered multiple life-threatening cardiac arrests.

The new heart beat again in the patient's chest at 0:35 on June 14, after 5 hours and 30 minutes of cold ischemia and 66 minutes of extracorporeal circulation support.

Meanwhile, the liver was transplanted to a 16-year-old patient with congenital biliary atresia and biliary cirrhosis. After a lengthy transplant, the liver was reperfused at 1:53 a.m. the same day.

By the evening of June 14, both patients were conscious, their vital signs were stable and they had been taken off ventilators.

After 6 days, the liver transplant patient was able to eat and move around again, with no complications recorded.

The hospital also performed corneal transplants on two patients with corneal dystrophy, one of whom had lost all vision. Each transplant lasted about an hour. After surgery, both patients' vision is gradually recovering, and they are beginning to see light clearly.

Professor Pham Nhu Hiep, director of Hue Central Hospital, said that each organ transplant is a miraculous journey, where life continues from compassion and love.

NHAT LINH

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/bon-cuoc-song-hoi-sinh-nho-ghep-tang-cua-mot-benh-nhan-nam-39-tuoi-20250619084121177.htm