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Prof. Liu Lunxun was selected into American Association for Thoracic Surgery as New Member in 2018. Lobectomy is the main surgical procedure for the treatment of lung diseases like cancer, bronchiectasis, and complications of tuberculosis. Among them, lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In China, more tha...
Professor Hu Bing’s team of Digestive Endoscopy Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, focuses on basic and clinical research of early gastrointestinal cancer and biliary-pancreatic diseases. The team has established a clinical and biological sample database of early gastrointestinal cancer and conducted multi-field and cross-disciplinary...
Led by honored Professor Guo Yingqiang, the cardiac minimally invasive valve team of West China Hospital, SCU, has promptly constituted a heart center performing transcatheter valve implantation of most cases in China. And Carried out by this team successfully, is the very first transcatheter surgical TAVI in China in 2014. To further facilita...
The world’s first laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) was performed in 1992, but there were only a few reports in China at the beginning of the 21st century. Due to the lack of equipment, techniques, long operation time and high incidence of complications, by 2008, all the laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomies were basically stopped in...
As one of the earliest kidney transplant organizations in China, West China Hospital has performed more than 5,000 cases of kidney transplant since the first case in September 1978. At present, the longest functioning period of transplanted kidney is more than 40 years. From 2011 to 2018, the total number of kidney transplants in our hospital...
Laparoscopic Surgery for Lower Rectal Cancer with Functional Anal Preservation and Individualized Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection (LLAR, the first in the world, 2000) Since 2000, the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, led by Professor Zhou Zongguang, has surmounted the blind zone...