Patient C.B. (born in 2019) received a kidney transplant from the organ source of a 19-year-old young man who unfortunately died in a traffic accident in Quang Ninh.
Previously, the hospital received organ coordination information from the National Organ Transplant Coordination Center. Immediately after identifying the brain-dead donor in accordance with professional regulations and law, the team of Children's Hospital 2 urgently set off to Quang Ninh to receive the organ.
According to BS.CKII Phan Tan Duc, Head of the Nephrology Department, Children's Hospital 2, the organ removal surgery was performed on the night of July 25. The kidney was removed and refrigerated at 0:30 am on July 26, then quickly transported by air to Ho Chi Minh City. By noon of the same day, after completing the necessary tests, the team began the kidney transplant for the patient.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Huynh Thi Vu Quynh, Head of the Department of Nephrology and Endocrinology, Children's Hospital 2, said that the patient suffered from chronic kidney failure due to congenital kidney hypoplasia and bladder-ureter reflux, and was diagnosed with the disease when she was only 45 days old. She has had abdominal dialysis since the age of 2.5 months.
Due to contracting the disease very early, the patient faced many severe complications such as malnutrition, dilated heart chambers, bone metabolism disorders and vascular calcification. This is also the case with the smallest age and weight ever transplanted kidney at Children's Hospital 2.
According to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Ngoc Thach, Deputy Director of Children's Hospital 2, the success of the transplant is an important milestone when the hospital team was completely proactive from the stage of receiving and transporting organs to performing the transplant for the first time.
Doctors emphasized that the success of the transplant came not only from professional efforts but also from the noble gesture of the organ donor and his family. That gift of life has opened up opportunities for revival for many patients across the country, including a child patient who is being given more hope to continue his journey of maturity.
