For the first time in the world, Vietnamese doctors transplant the hands of living people to patients

From the amputated limb of a patient, 108 Military Central Hospital doctors successfully grafted the "new hand" to the male patient who had an amputated arm 4 years ago.

On February 24, Central Military Hospital 108, Hanoi announced the successful implementation of the first graft graft in Southeast Asia , and is also the first graft transplant in the world. who give.

The patient who performed this transplant was Mr. Pham Van Vuong (31 years old, Thanh Tri, Hanoi). In 2016, during the labor process, Mr. Wang had an accident that caused the whole 1/3 of his lower arm and hand to crush. Mr. Wang was taken to 108 Military Central Hospital.

The wound was too heavy, could not be preserved, the doctors ordered him to cut a third of his left forearm. The patient was discharged after two weeks of treatment.

On January 3, 108 Central Military Hospital received a severe and complicated case from the conveyor belt conveyor's conveyor belt and pressed it directly on the left arm from the 1/3 area under the forearm to the armpit. During 3 weeks of treatment with 3 operations, the patient was attempted to save the patient's arm by the Surgeon and Upper Surgery Department, but the necrosis of the elbows and muscles, the infection and the threat network.

Mr. Wang expressed his joy and thanked the physicians for their surgery.(Photo: BVCC).

Finally, the doctors agreed to amputate limb level 1/3 of the arm. After the examination, the doctors found that the amputated limb (1/3 of the part from the forearm to the hand) could be used to transplant patients with amputations in the same position as patient Vuong. . The patient and his family agreed and volunteered to give 1/3 of that arm to Mr. Wang.

Transplants from live donors were performed on January 21. The surgical team was performed by Prof. Dr. Nguyen The Hoang and 8 doctors of the Upper Limb and Traumatology Department.

More than a month after the limb transplant, the patient was able to use a grafted hand to hold some rough objects.

In the world, from 1998 up to now, only about 89 limb transplantations in the world have been reported in international literature. Transplant cases are all sourced from brain donors. In Southeast Asian countries, so far no single genomic transplant has been announced in the world literature. This is the first case in the world performed at 108 Military Central Hospital.