He is a pioneer in the field of Chinese mainland living donor liver transplantation.
It has given countless patients a new lease of life.
This "academician" doctor who has always worked in the clinical frontline,
I have been fighting for the "liver" all my life.
In the 54 years of work, he has constantly broken through the medical forbidden zone. He said: "Always staying on one level, that's not my character. ”
Qian Hua, 47, is one of Wang Xuehao's thousands of reborn liver transplant recipients and the first person Chinese mainland to marry and have children after a liver transplant. He defined Wang Xuehao this way: "Without him, there would be no me." ”
In 54 years of medical practice, Wang Xuehao has treated tens of thousands of critically ill patients like Qian Hua. Every Monday morning, 77-year-old Wang Xuehao shows up at the clinic on time to see patients from all over the country. "Every organ in the human body is important, but the liver is more complicated with multiple diseases. I love doing challenging, complex, and risky surgeries. ”
In 1965, after graduating from Nanjing Medical College, Wang Xuehao came to work in Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital. In clinical practice, he met many surgical patients, and his condition improved rapidly after surgical treatment, and this immediate effect made him feel the great value of being a doctor. With the original intention of "benefiting patients", in 1983, Wang Xuehao went to the United States for further study, under the tutelage of Professor Stazel, the "father of liver transplantation in the world". However, at that time, most countries, including China, were not in a mature condition for liver transplantation, and Wang Xuehao could only bury the dream of "liver transplantation" in his heart and turn to targeted research on the diagnosis of early liver cancer with iodized oil.
After working day and night to study, Wang Xuehao found that when iodized oil was hit into the liver artery, it would magically accumulate and precipitate in the liver tumor area. If there is no tumor, the iodized oil will quickly spread throughout the body and have no effect on the human body. This method significantly improves the diagnosis rate of micro-small liver tumors.
In 1987, Wang Xuehao released the research results of "iodized oil combined with chemotherapy drugs to guide the treatment of primary liver cancer" for the first time in the world, and it is still the main means of comprehensive treatment of liver cancer. In the face of great success, Wang Xuehao was not satisfied.
Liver transplantation is a delicate and vast and difficult life project, however, the lack of global donor liver sources has left many patients with the only waiting to die. In 1988, Brazil carried out the world's first living liver transplant, Wang Xuehao was keenly aware that living body liver exchange can bring hope to more patients with advanced liver disease, but the risk factor is also multiplied.
When many domestic counterparts regard living liver transplantation as a "forbidden area", Wang Xuehao feels that the wide source of living liver transplantation, high quality and low incidence of rejection are bound to become the future development direction of liver transplantation. "There's nothing remarkable about foreigners, we can do what they can do." Wang Xuehao, who likes to challenge, is always preparing for this breakthrough. It wasn't until 1995 that a young woman named Xi Aimei decided to donate her liver to save her husband.
Xia Yongxiang, a hepatobiliary surgeon at Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital, described the risks faced by Wang Xuehao: "There are transplant doctors abroad who have revoked their lifelong medical qualifications and even eaten lawsuits because of the death of donors. "At that time, he told his team, don't be nervous, if something like this happens, I will bear it alone."
On January 5, 1995, Wang Xuehao led the team to complete the first living liver transplant in Chinese mainland.
From adult living donor liver transplantation to children's living liver transplantation to emergency living donor liver transplantation, Wang Xuehao led the team to overcome one difficulty after another, setting a number of national firsts in the field of living liver transplantation, and thousands of patients were reborn through his liver transplantation.
2001 Pioneered Chinese mainland parental liver transplantation;
2002 Chinese mainland first emergency living donor liver transplant;
In 2005, Chinese mainland pioneered "one liver and two uses";
2006 Chinese mainland first living donor transplant in adults with enlarged right hemisphere;
In 2011, Wang Xuehao was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering;
Wang Xuehao said: "Academically, there is no end, and the pursuit is also endless. There are many patients, and we need to make continuous efforts.
Constantly pursue, to solve these problems. ”
Today, Wang Xuehao, who is in his eighties, still adheres to the frontline of clinical and scientific research, and has begun to lead the team to study the new proposition of anti-rejection therapy after liver transplantation.
His dedication to the medical cause and the spirit of constantly moving forward and having the courage to make breakthroughs have influenced everyone in the department; he has also devoted his life's medical experience to young people, and has trained a large number of talents such as "Yangtze River Scholars" and "National Outstanding Youth".
"As long as we work hard, we may save him from the line of death, and this is also our motivation."
Hats off to the laborers!