Hue, Aug. 4 -- The Hue Central Hospital on August 4 held a ceremony to discharge and congratulate a 56-year-old patient on his successful heart transplant, marking the hospital's 19th successful surgery of this kind.

Born in 1969, he is the oldest person to have undergone a heart transplant at the hospital in the central city of Hue.

The patient from Le Thuy commune in neighbouring Quang Tri province was discharged in stable condition. He no longer experienced shortness of breath and was able to walk, move around, and eat normally.

In early 2025, he was diagnosed and treated at the Cardiology Department of the hospital's Cardiovascular Centre, where doctors determined that a heart transplant was essential to sustain his life. On June 2...