18-year-old brain-dead girl donates heart, kidney, liver to save 4 people

With the support of experts from Viet Duc Hospital, Cho Ray Hospital successfully performed the first heart transplant from a brain-dead donor.

Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital perform surgery. Photo: NH

Previously, an 18-year-old female patient had a traffic accident in Dong Nai and was transferred to Cho Ray Hospital by her family on May 19 with a contusion of the frontal brain, bilateral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. After several days of hospitalization, due to the severity of her condition, the patient fell into a coma and was expected to die.

After the patient's family agreed to donate organs, the hospital's organ transplant committee also met and selected a suitable patient.

On May 29, the Cho Ray Hospital's organ transplant teams simultaneously received a heart, two kidneys, and a liver and transplanted them to four patients in five operating rooms. The heart transplant was completed at 10 p.m.; the two kidney transplants were completed at 9:23 p.m.; and the liver transplant was completed at 5 a.m. the next morning.

Currently, the health of the 4 patients who received organ transplants is stable.

According to TNO