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A 40-year-old woman and a 70-year-old veteran who want to donate a part of her lungs to save “patient 91.”
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Phuc, Deputy Director of the National Coordination Center for Human Organ Transplantation, said on the afternoon of May 13, the two people contacted the Center to express their desire to donate lungs to pilot patients. Brother.
In particular, 70-year-old veterans in Dak Nong called the Center twice to request a donation.
“When I informed the current regulations not to accept organs from people over the age of 70, he was disappointed but expressed his confidence and pride in the health of Vietnam. He hoped to have an appropriate lung donor soon.” to save the patient from the pilot, “said Phuc.
The center also received a donation from a 40-year-old woman. She said, “If only a partial lung transplant can save the patient, then I signed up to donate the lung.”
The woman also shared that she was healthy, that she had a happy family, that she never met the British pilot.
Mr. Phuc said the pilot patient lung transplant plan also depends on many factors, such as whether or not the transplant is indicated, how the organ is transplanted, the physical and immune factors of the body. If transplantation is indicated, the number one priority is to seek the brain death donation. There is also a plan to receive donated lungs from a living donor.
“Those who want to donate their lungs to save patients are truly respectable. This is a source of encouragement for the healthcare sector to heal seriously ill patients, regardless of who they are,” said Phuc.
Recently, there was a brain-dead person with type O blood who was asked by his family to donate organs to pilot patients. Unfortunately, the lungs of this lung donor were broken.
Today’s “patient 91” in health continues to be rated as very bad. Both lungs are fibrosed, only about 10% can function. Without ECMO support, the patient would die. Currently, the only way to save patients is a lung transplant. He is the most serious Covid-19 patient today.
The patient is a pilot for Vietnam Airlines and his health is very erratic. He suffers from “cytokine storm” syndrome: an overactive immune system against the body, a blood clotting disorder, more than a month of ECMO (extra-body oxygen system) intervention, dialysis.
Lung transplantation is the most difficult organ transplant technique today, both in the transplant technique and after transplant care. Currently, Vietnam has successfully performed 5 lung transplants, in which one transplant from a donor lived at Hospital 103. Viet Duc Hospital performed two lung transplants from a brain donor. One of these lung transplant patients after 10 months can be discharged.
