In 1979, West China Hospital successfully performed the first liver transplant in Sichuan Province and the third in the country. To date, over 1,600 liver transplants of various types have been performed. Under the leadership of Professor Yan Lvnan, the liver transplant team at West China Hospital has conducted systematic innovative research o...

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...

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...

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...