The recipient of the liver is Mrs. Cung Thi Kim Dinh, who suffered from liver failure since 2010, and the donor is her 22-year-old son D.H.L, a student of information technology at the HCM City Foreign Language and Informatics University. 

Two hours after the operation, which began at 8:25 am last Friday and ended on 10:30 pm the same day, the son recovered and later ate some soup and drank some milk.

Two days after the surgery, Dinh practiced walking and managed to walk to the next room to visit her son.

Tests of blood and liver functions on Dinh after the surgery showed that her health is in normal state. She needs more care for about 2 weeks.

Meanwhile, the son will continue to be followed in isolation room for 7-10 days and will be discharged in around a month.

After 6-8 weeks, the son will have a regenerated liver that will be 60-80 percent of his original liver, Dr. Son said.

As previously reported, a 15-member group from the South Korean center arrived in HCMC on October 11 to join their Vietnamese counterparts for the transplant surgery a day later.