YANGON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar specialists have successfully transplanted an artificial aorta into a patient with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm at a hospital in the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday.

    The surgical operation was carried out on a male patient, U Than Kyaw, 68, on July 30 by seven Myanmar specialists, led by Cardiologist Dr. Win Win Kyaw, on complaint of a pain in the patient's abdomen, the report said..

    After the successful operation, the patient was discharged from hospital Wednesday, the report added.

    In August 2004, Myanmar also successfully carried out a liver transplant operation for the first time.

    A donated 39 year-old female liver was transplanted into a male patient named Ko Khin Zaw Htet, 35, in the New Yangon General Hospital with the patient's health condition recovering and improving 30 hours after the operation, then report said.

    The over-13-hour operation, carried out by a team of surgeons led by Dr Norman Hla, was claimed by Myanmar as the first in Southeast Asia.

    During the past two decades, Myanmar had also successfully performed operations on renal transplant, crushed arm replanting and separating a conjoined twin.