TSGH liver。20th anniversary~ Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the liver transplant
Update Date:2024/07/01,
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The "Rebirth together—Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the liver transplant“ event was held on December 15th, 2023, in the hospital. Over 100 liver transplant patients and their families gathered to share their post-transplant experiences with physicians and other patients. Everyone learned a lot.
The liver transplant team of the hospital have completed 444 living donor liver transplants and 185 cadaver liver transplants, totaling 629 liver transplant cases to date. The number of liver transplant cases has been sustained in the top three places among transplantation hospitals in the north area. The liver transplant case survival rate in the hospital is better than the nationwide average (as announced by the National Health Insurance Administration in 2022) so we have developed into a top liver transplant hospital among the army and civilians in the north.
Since the first cadaver liver transplant was completed in 2001 at the Tri-Service General Hospital, we have continued to dedicate our efforts to upgrading transplant technology. We completed the "split liver transplantation surgery" in 2004 and worked on six cases using this technique. In 2007, a five-year-old child developed liver failure due to a viral infection. With love, the mother donated part of her liver and the first pediatric partial liver transplant from a living donor was successfully performed in the Tri-Service General Hospital. In 2010, we broke the bottleneck of different blood type limitations and successfully performed an incompatible ABO blood type living donor liver transplant surgery; the patient has maintained regular OPD follow-ups for 13 years. The number of incompatible blood type liver transplant surgeries has continued to grow at the Tri-Service General Hospital with 46 patient undergoing surgery to date. In the same year, breakthrough transplant technology was developed to complete a liver transplant using 1/4 of a liver graft for six cases. In addition, the team fulfilled a 74 year old's last wish – to donate and match a graft with a recipient.
There are no national boundaries in transplantation medicine. The Tri-Service General Hospital has transformed transplant medical technology assistance into international medical assistance. In 2005, one Chinese person from Myanmar who was gravely ill due to hepatitis C-induced acute hepatic failure was sent to hospital, and we successfully assisted the patient with an emergency liver transplant, saving their life. The liver team and kidney transplant team collaborated in 2014 to complete the first dual living organ transplant;, a breakthrough "simultaneous liver and kidney transplant". All of these accumulated experiences have earned recognitions from overseas medical teams. In 2022, two Vietnamese surgeons came to the hospital to study liver transplant surgery and learned a lot from caring for patients with end-stage liver disease, as well as liver transplant diagnosis, treatment, and medical observations and techniques, marking a new chapter for liver transplant academic exchange at the hospital.
