Doctors at Vietnam’s HCMC Hospital Conducts Liver Transplant on 13-Month-Old

Doctors at the Children Hospital 2 in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City succeeded in the liver transplant for a kid suffering cirrhosis after ten hours on October 4, state media has reported. This is the tenth liver transplant carried out in the hospital. The recipient, 13 months old Nguyen Vo Tri Hao received a portion of liver from his father, Nguyen Thanh Hiep, 38 years old. Both father and son are being treated by doctors at the hospital’s the intensive care unit after the surgery, said Dr. Pham Ngoc Thach, deputy head of the hospital. Doctors had cut 230gr liver of the father to transplant for his son to replace the section of rotten liver. About 40 doctors from the Children Hospital 2 and other hospitals in the city were engaged in the surgery. Two experts from Belgium’s Saint-Luc University who implemented the first liver transplantation at the hospital returned for the procedure. The liver is the only internal organ in the human body that can regenerate. The donor’s liver could re-grow within two or three months after donation. (laodong.com.vn Oct 4, cand.com.vn Oct 4)