HANOI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — A hospital in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi has conducted a successful heart and kidney transplant on a 37-year-old man who had lived with a disease of the heart muscle for more than a decade, Vietnam News Agency reported Friday.
The 10-hour operation, carried out on Feb. 15, was done by a team of 80 surgeons, anesthesiologists and other medical staff.
The recipient started developing