Associate Professor Thai Minh Sam, Head of the Department of Urology, said that the first patient is a Kien Giang girl with end-stage chronic kidney failure, who has been undergoing regular hemodialysis since April 2015.
The second patient is a 32-year-old girl from Dak Nong.
Both couples had the same B blood type, and after being explained by the doctors, they agreed to cross-exchange each other.
Doctors perform kidney transplant surgery.
On January 11, two laparoscopic kidney surgeries were performed in parallel by two teams, starting at 8 a.m. and ending at 11 a.m.
Reuniting the doctors one month after the kidney transplant, the two female patients were healthy and agile.
According to Associate Professor Sam, cross-over kidney transplantation was first performed in the world in 1991 in Korea and is now being applied in many countries.
Two healthy girls reunited with doctors one month after a cross-matched kidney transplant.
Kidney transplants in the world have been performed since 1954. Vietnam’s first transplant was in 1992, initially with kidney transplants from living donors.