From the liver of a brain-dead young man, doctors split it in half and successfully transplanted it into two people, one child, one adult.
Can adults donate hearts to children? In addition, is that heart still a patient with advanced cancer? Is it possible?
Science donations have been around for 200 years and dead bodies are often used in anatomical studies or to train doctors in medical schools, according to News.com.au.
A tragedy brought the two American families together, and the heart of a young man changed the fate of two families, forever.
Two addresses for registration and issuance of organ donation cards in Vietnam are Viet Duc Hospital (Hanoi) and Cho Ray (HCMC).
Not all patients with organ transplants are successful, have cases of transplant rejection immediately or after several years, but also have life expectancy for several decades.
Only by donating your organs and body after death, you have provided the opportunity to save dozens or even hundreds of others.
Before conducting heart transplant surgery, a 25-year-old American man must wear a 24/7 artificial heart backpack throughout 555 days.
Abcnews reported that doctors in Maryland's Johns Hopkins Medicine Hospital have successfully performed the world's first liver and kidney transplant between donors and recipients
Previously, a transplanted kidney from an HIV patient to another HIV patient was performed in South Africa and it has also been shown to save lives of transplant recipients.