The donor, a young brain-dead man from Hung Yen Province, provided one heart, one liver, and two kidneys, giving four critically ill patients a second chance at life. The heart recipient is an 18-year-old male patient with severe end-stage heart failure, with an ejection fraction of just 17 percent. One day after the transplant, he remains in intensive care with stable hemodynamic indicators while continuing ECMO support and mechanical ventilation. The liver transplant was performed on a 48-year-old man with cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B, diagnosed three years ago but left untreated. The second kidney recipient, a 27-year-old man, was diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure in February 2025 and had been undergoing dialysis three times a week.

Source: Tuoitre News February 23, 2026 17:14 UTC