Vietnamese organ transplants mark on the world medical map
From multi-organ transplants to the first heart-lyng transplant, 2025 marks a strong breakthrough of Vietnamese organ transplants on the world medical map.
Vietnamese organ transplant breaks through
2025 ended with special marks for the Vietnamese healthcare sector, when the organ transplant sector recorded a series of unprecedented records. In the context of the health system still under pressure, these outstanding achievements not only save the lives of hundreds of patients but also affirm the solid progress of Vietnamese medicine in the international arena.
Not simply technical successes, organ transplants in the past year show the comprehensive maturity of the health system - from professional qualifications, coordination capacity, to the persistent spirit of dedication of the medical team.
One of the highlights of 2025 is the strong development of the brain-dead donation program - organ transplantation. At major centers such as Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, 108 Central Military Hospital, Cho Ray Hospital, many cases of multiple organ transplants have been successfully deployed, helping to revive many patients at the birth and death border.
The increase in the number of organ donations shows that the public's awareness of the humanistic meaning of donating life has had clear changes. Along with that is the increasingly improved role of the legal system, coordination and organization of organ transplants nationwide.
Each organ donation decision is not only a noble sharing of the people who stay, but also a premise for the medical team to perform surgeries with the highest complexity of modern medicine.
First simultaneous heart-ly lung transplant
2025 also marks the first time Vietnam has successfully performed a simultaneous heart-lyng transplant. The patient with end-stage heart-lyng reflux, no longer responding to internal medicine treatment, was given a new chance to live thanks to a surgery that lasted for many hours, requiring almost absolute accuracy and coordination.
Heart-lyng transplantation is a technique that is only deployed at some of the world's leading medical centers. The fact that Vietnamese doctors master this technique not only has the meaning of saving patients' lives, but also shows that the gap in professional qualifications between Vietnam and developed countries is getting shorter.
After the transplant, the patient recovered positively, gradually returning to normal activities - the result of close coordination between the specialties of surgery, resuscitation, immunology and post-operative care.
21 organ transplants in 6 days
In January 2025, Viet Duc Friendship Hospital set a special record: performing 21 organ transplants in just 6 days, including heart, liver, kidney and synchronous liver- kidney transplants.
This series of consecutive transplants shows the high level of operational capacity of the Vietnamese organ transplant system, from the stage of coordinating organ donation - collection - transportation accurately to every minute, to the smooth coordination between specialties in high pressure conditions.
Experts consider this a clear demonstration of the fact that Vietnam has entered the stage of mastering large-scale organ transplants - something that has been considered a long-term goal of the health sector for many years.
Behind the historic surgeries are thousands of stressful working hours, empty nights in the operating room and the heavy pressure that the medical team faces. In harsh working conditions, they still silently move forward, putting the patient's life above all.
On the last day of 2025, 108 Central Military Hospital successfully performed a cross-Vietnam liver transplant to save patients.
The year 2025 ended not with flashy statements, but with the heartbeat being connected, the lungs being revived and the lives that seemed to have reached the end were now continued to be written.
Achievements in the field of organ transplantation are not only a milestone for the health sector, but also a common pride of society - where the intelligence, compassion and persistent labor spirit of the Vietnamese people have conquered seemingly impossible limits in modern medicine.
Since the first kidney transplant in 1992, Vietnam has performed about 10,000 organ transplants, reaching the highest rate in Southeast Asia with more than 1,000 cases per year, many techniques approaching regional and world standards.
Currently, our country has successfully transplanted 6 types of body parts, mainly kidney transplant (8,904 cases), followed by liver transplant (754 cases), heart transplant (126 cases), lung transplant (13 cases), upper limb transplant (3 cases), bowel transplant (2 cases) and hundreds of tissue transplants such as cornea, skin, stem cells.
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