(VNF) - The Military Medical Academy announced on February 22^nd that the first lung transplant with the lung donated by alive persons has been conducted successfully in Vietnam.

The transplant was conducted at Military Hospital 103 by doctors of the hospital and the academy, with assistance from Japanese experts.

The news conference announces the first lung-transplant with the lung donated by an alive person. (Source: VNA)

The patient was Ly Chuong Binh, a seven-years-old boy from Bat Dai Son commune, Quan Ba district, northern mountainous Ha Giang province. He suffered from congenital bronchiectasis in two lungs with complications of respiratory failure, chronic heart failure, and malnutrition in the third degree.

The donors were Binh’s father and uncle, born in 1989 and 1987 respectively, who are living in Na Can hamlet, Bat Dai Son commune, Quan Ba district, the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

Doctors said after the surgery, the father’s and uncle’s health has been stable. Binh’s health has been closely monitored and his survival indicators have also been stable.

The Military Medical Academy is one of the biggest viscera transplant centres of Vietnam. The academy had successfully conducted kidney, liver, heart and marrow-kidney transplant surgeries.

From June to October 2016, the academy implemented a research and sent doctors to the University of Okayama Hospital to exchange experience on lung transplant. It also received a group of Japanese experts who came to share expertise on lung transplant with the academy’s doctors./.

( Compiled by VNF )