With the support of Cho Ray Hospital, Xuyen A Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City successfully transplanted a kidney to a young girl with end-stage renal failure from a kidney donated by her 53-year-old father.
Doctors put the father's kidney into the body of his 28-year-old daughter who had end-stage renal failure - Photo: HA VY
On March 10, a representative of Xuyen A Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City said that with professional support from Cho Ray Hospital, the unit successfully performed a kidney transplant on a young female patient whose father donated a kidney.
Specifically, the patient is Ms. NTHG (28 years old, Tay Ninh), in 2019 the patient began to see symptoms of swelling, blurred vision, and frequent fatigue.
The family took the patient to Ho Chi Minh City for examination and was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome. Although she was given treatment instructions, because of the long distance and the subjective belief that she was young and the disease would go away, she voluntarily abandoned the treatment.
Father donates kidney to save 28-year-old daughter with end-stage renal failure
In 2023, feeling her health was stable, the patient got married and became pregnant. However, the happiness did not last long as her health worsened.
The patient had symptoms of body swelling, rapidly blurred vision, inability to see clearly, inability to urinate, inability to eat, and fatigue. In April 2024, she received bad news when she could not keep the 24-week-old fetus.
At the time of learning of the miscarriage, the doctors said the patient's left kidney was completely damaged.
Nephrotic syndrome, due to lack of thorough treatment, progressed to end-stage renal failure, requiring regular dialysis.
Unable to bear seeing his daughter suffer from illness, Mr. NVC (53 years old) decided to donate a kidney to her.
On February 20, the laparoscopic kidney transplant surgery of a father to his daughter was performed at the hospital, in coordination with doctors from Cho Ray Hospital.
After 7 hours of surgery, the laparoscopic kidney transplant surgery using specialized techniques ended successfully, with the efforts of dozens of doctors and nurses in the team.
Immediately after the kidney transplant, the patient's kidney function was restored, and the patient was able to urinate right on the operating table. Currently, kidney function has returned to normal, no longer tired, and can eat and drink normally.
Doctor Vu Le Anh - head of the nephrology department, Xuyen A General Hospital - said that this female patient is too young, the patient has had nephrotic syndrome for many years without adequate treatment, along with the miscarriage, so the patient's health is getting weaker and weaker, causing kidney failure.
Up to now, Xuyen A Hospital has successfully performed 12 kidney transplants from living donors: mother to child, father to child, sister to brother, husband to wife... with the professional support of doctors from Cho Ray Hospital.
In the coming time, the hospital will be autonomous in kidney transplant techniques from the 21st kidney transplant, to reduce the load on frontline hospitals.
Doctors recommend that people with nephrotic syndrome, if treated early and well controlled, can be completely cured, without the need for dialysis, and without worrying about kidney failure.
Therefore, when people discover that their body has symptoms of kidney failure such as swelling, poor urination, poor appetite, and frequent fatigue, they should seek treatment immediately and not despair.
Ho Chi Minh City has mastered many complex organ transplant techniques.
According to statistics from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, since the first kidney transplant in 1992, hospitals in the city have successfully performed more than 1,126 kidney transplants.
Complex organ transplant techniques such as cross-transplantation, blood group transplantation, liver transplantation, heart transplantation... have all been successfully performed at many major hospitals.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/co-gai-tre-28-tuoi-suy-than-giai-doan-cuoi-hoi-sinh-nho-qua-than-cua-cha-20250310150434915.htm
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