Vietnam has marked a new imprint in the world medical map with the successful performance of the world’s first limb transplant from a live donor by doctors of the Central Military Hospital 108.

Doctors at Viet Duc (Vietnam - Germany) Friendship Hospital have reached a new milestone as they performed the 1,000th successful kidney transplant at the hospital, an official from the hospital has confirmed.

The General Hospital of Hue successfully performed a kidney transplant for a female patient.

On June 17, doctors from Military Hospital 103 successfully conducted the hospital's 500th kidney transplant operation on a female patient from Nong Cong District, the north-central province of Thanh Hoa.

Doctors have performed a successful kidney transplant on a 15-year-old boy with kidney failure at Pediatrics Hospital No2 in HCM City, the country’s first organ transplant on a child using a donated kidney from a brain-dead adult.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It’s 7am at the kidney dialysis room at the Children Hospital 2 in HCM City and the crowd of parents with their children has become a familiar sight to doctors.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  Doctors from Xuyen A Hospital have successfully performed the first kidney transplant done at a private medical facility in HCM City.

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 A shift in how donor kidneys are allocated in the U.S. has been linked with higher transplant rates for black and Hispanic patients, a recent study suggests.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The Saint Paul Hospital has become the first hospital under the Ha Noi administration to successfully perform a kidney transplant,

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 A noninvasive urine test might offer doctors a simple way to tell if a kidney transplant patient is at risk of transplant rejection, a U.S. study said Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Centre for co-ordinating Human Organ Transplants, which opened in Ha Noi on Saturday, is a long overdue service that facilitates both organ donors and their recipients.

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