Jimu news reporter Liu Xun
Correspondent Nie Wenwen Liu Kunwei Xiong Wanting
On the morning of January 30, Professor Xia Jiahong, Director of the Department of Cardiac and Macrovascular Surgery of Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Union Hospital"), successfully changed the heart of a 54-year-old patient with end-stage heart failure. It is reported that this is the 7th heart transplant surgery of Union Hospital in 2022, and in 2021, the department of cardiac and large vessel surgery of the hospital completed 97 heart transplants, leading the country.
Specialist surgery
The ECG successfully re-beats
Mr. Zhang (pseudonym) from Wuhan suffered from severe coronary heart disease, acute large-scale myocardial infarction combined with the formation of ventricular wall tumors, and had severe heart failure, and sought medical treatment in many places. On 20 January, he was transferred to Union Hospital, where his heart failure worsened. In a race against time, a heart transplant is the only chance to survive.
After waiting for a week, Mr. Zhang ushered in the opportunity to change his heart. At 9:52 a.m. on January 30, Dr. Hu Xingjian, the "Heart Care Runner Male Team", escorted this precious heart to the operating room of Union Hospital. Trim the heart carefully, carefully place it in the chest cavity, anastomose the blood vessels ... The team of experts led by Director Dong Nianguo, Professor Xia Jiahong and Professor Wang Guohua cooperated with tacit understanding and achieved success in one go. After 30 minutes of hard work, at 11 o'clock, the transplanted heart began to beat again. On the occasion of the Arrival of the Year of the Tiger, Mr. Zhang ushered in the "Heart Hope".
The cardiac surgery team cooperates tacitly
Professor Dong Nianguo introduced that heart transplantation is the main means of treating end-stage heart disease. Over the past ten years, Union Medical College Hospital has carried out more than 900 heart transplants, ranking first in the country for many years; more than 100 cases of children's heart transplants, accounting for 40% of the national total, promoting the development of Heart Transplantation in China.