Doctors of Viet Duc Friendship Hospital have successfully performed heart and lung transplant surgery at the same time, helping preserve lives for patients.
The Military Medical Hospital 103 has just announced the first lung transplant in Vietnam that has been successfully performed.
For the first time, scientists at the Medical University of Texas Medical Branch successfully recreated human lungs in the laboratory.
Okayama University Hospital, Japan, announced on July 1 that it had successfully performed an organ transplant from a mother's lung lobe for a 3-year-old son.