Vietnam attends regional workshop on liver and marrow transplantation
The conference on liver and bone marrow transplantation was held in Singapore from November 23-24 with the participation of about 100 doctors from many Asian countries.
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| A liver transplant surgery at Cho Ray Hospital. (Photo: Phuong Vy/VNA) |
The Vietnamese delegation includes 5 Vietnamese doctors from the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Ho Chi Minh City Hematology and Blood Transfusion Hospital and Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi).
The workshop was co-organized by the Asia-America Medical Group (AAMG) and Gleneagles Hospital of Singapore and UPMC Medical Group of the US.
According to Dr Tan Kai Chah, Executive Chairman of AAMG, this is the first time in Asia that there is a conference discussing liver transplantation combined with blood diseases and bone marrow transplantation.
He said this is also the first time the liver transplant conference organized by AAMG has the participation of UPMC, one of the top 10 medical corporations in the US that has achieved many successes in treatment and research on transplant subjects.
Previously, in 2012, AAMG partnered with UPMC to establish the Comprehensive Transplant Center specializing in treating liver, organ and blood diseases.
AAMG Group has also entered into a joint venture with Vietnamese partners to establish a satellite liver center in Ho Chi Minh City and the Vietnam-US Liver Center at Vinmec Hospital in Hanoi.
Hematologists, liver transplant specialists, bone marrow transplant specialists and blood diseases specialists from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Mongolia and Vietnam listened to leading experts from many countries around the world present their papers on symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of diseases related to iron overload; new techniques of robotic surgery in transplants; initial successes in bone marrow transplants...
For Vietnamese doctors, attending the conference is a good opportunity to listen to specialists from the US, Italy, Russia and Singapore share advanced technologies and experiments in the fight against blood cancers and blood disorders./.
According to Vietnam+
