The first organ transplantation (Tx) in Vietnam such as kidney Tx in June 1992, liver Tx in January 2004 and heart Tx in June 2010) were successfully performed at 103 Hospital, Military Medical University. Until August 2013, nearly 850 cases of kidney Tx were performed in 12 Vietnamese hospitals, including 48 cadaveric kidney Tx and more than 160 living donor nephrectomy by endoscopy. | Journal of military pharmaco-medicine 7-2013 update of some results of Organ Transplantation Le Trung Hai* et al Summary The first organ transplantation (Tx) in Vietnam such as kidney Tx in June 1992, liver Tx in January 2004 and heart Tx in June 2010) were successfully performed at 103 Hospital, Military Medical University. Until August 2013, nearly 850 cases of kidney Tx were performed in 12 Vietnamese hospitals, including 48 cadaveric kidney Tx and more than 160 living donor nephrectomy by endoscopy. Thirty three cases of liver Tx, including 20 living donor liver Tx (LDLT) and 13 cases from brain death patients, were carried out in 5 centers of our country. Nine cases of heart Tx were performed from brain death donor in 3 hospitals. In recent years, the organ Tx in Vietnam has been remarkably improved and innovated with promising results for new domestic treatment of end-stage organ failure, which pushed up development of medicine field in our country and helped us upgrade the level of organ Tx in the world. The success of organ Tx has contributed intensification of unity and cooperation among scientists in general as well as domestic and international medical centers in particular and brought a lot of economic and social benefits. * Key words: Organ transplantation; Kidney transplantation; Liver transplantation; Heart transplantation. Introduction Organ Tx is one of the greatest success of medicine in the 20th century, and is a dream of Vietnamese surgery as well. It helps replace a part of body or organ disease with healthy organ. In the world, the first organ Tx study was carried out at the beginning of last century, the first case of kidney Tx was performed in 1954, the first liver transplant in 1963, the first heart transplant in 1967 and other organs later. Approximately 50,000 organ Tx are performed annually over the world at 1 and 5 year survival rate of 80 - 90%. In Vietnam, the success of the first kidney Tx on June 4, 1992, liver Tx (January .
