Lung Transplant Department

Department development history: The Department of Lung Transplantation (Internal Medicine) was established in April 2017 and is the principal unit of the Lung Transplantation Center and the Respiratory Center.

Department staffing: The director of the department is Chen Wenhui, the deputy director of the department is Qiang Guangliang (concurrently deputy director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery), and the head nurse is Sun Jing. There are 2 associate chief physicians, 2 attending physicians, 1 resident physician and 23 senior nurses; 4 have doctoral qualifications, 1 has a master's qualification and 23 have bachelor's qualifications. The National Center for Respiratory Medicine, on which the Department of Lung Transplantation relies, has an expert team composed of numerous well-known experts such as Academician Wang Chen, Professor Lin Jiangtao, Professor Cao Bin, Professor Dai Huaping, Professor Yang Ting, Professor Zhan Qingyuan, Professor Zhai Zhenguo, Professor Hou Gang, Professor Liu Deruo and Professor Liang Chaoyang as discipline leaders, together with outstanding young and middle-aged academic backbone members. The deputy director of the department, Chen Wenhui, is vice chairman of the Lung Transplantation Professional Quality Control Center of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, vice chairman of the Respiratory Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, deputy head of the Lung Transplantation Group of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, associate editor-in-chief of the Chinese edition of THORAX, and a member of the Respiratory Critical Care Group of the Respiratory Diseases Branch of the Chinese Medical Association.

Outpatient and ward facilities: The department runs specialty outpatient clinics for lung transplantation and for lung transplantation combined with pulmonary nodules. There are 38 inpatient beds in total, with 8 matching ICU beds; it mainly admits recipients with end-stage lung disease awaiting lung transplantation caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, bronchiectasis and the like, as well as patients receiving treatment and follow-up after lung transplantation.

Diagnostic and treatment equipment: The department is equipped with 1 EVLP device, 6 ECMO systems, 8 V60 non-invasive ventilators, 15 nasal high-flow oxygen therapy devices, 2 Olympus 290 electronic bronchoscopy systems, 1 endoscopic ultrasound mini-probe system, 9 electronic bronchoscopes, 1 Philips bedside ultrasound machine and 10 continuous electronic thoracic negative-pressure devices. In addition, it is equipped with defibrillators, electrocardiographs, cooling blanket machines, vibrating sputum drainage devices, mobile oxygen cylinders and other equipment, can provide a relatively high level of non-invasive and invasive respiratory support, and completes the transport and resuscitation of critically ill patients, among other tasks.

Clinical diagnosis and treatment features: Relying on the National Center for Respiratory Medicine of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, the Department of Lung Transplantation completed 50 lung transplantation operations in the first 9 months after its establishment and has cumulatively completed more than 450 lung transplantation operations over 5 years, accumulating rich experience in the comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of patients with end-stage lung disease, lung transplantation surgery, perioperative management, pulmonary rehabilitation guidance and long-term postoperative follow-up of patients. These include highly difficult lobar lung transplantation, lung transplantation for severe pulmonary arterial hypertension, lung transplantation with concurrent coronary artery bypass grafting, and combined liver-lung transplantation, etc. More than 1,500 bronchoscopy procedures are performed each year, including more than 200 case-times per year of level IV interventional procedures such as bronchoscopic balloon dilatation and cryotherapy.

Existing specialty outpatient clinics: The department has specialty outpatient clinics for lung transplantation (respiratory) and for lung transplantation and pulmonary nodules.

Scientific research achievements of the department: Important scientific research achievements obtained by the department and when they were obtained (arranged in reverse chronological order or by degree of importance).

1.SunLingxiao,ChenWenhui,etal.PhenotypicandgenotypicanalysisofKPC-51andKPC-52,twonovelKPC-2variantsconferringresistancetoceftazidime/avibactamintheKPC-producingKlebsiellapneumoniaeST11clonebackground.AntimicrobChemother2020;75:3072-3074.

2.HuangLinna,ChenWenhui,GuoLijuanetal.Scopulariopsis/Microascusisolationinlungtransplantrecipients:Areportofthreecasesandareviewoftheliterature.Mycoses2019;62:883-892.

3.XiaoFei,LiangChao-Yang,ChenWen-Huietal.Pulmonaryarterialstentforpulmonarytrunkstenosisaftersize-mismatchedlungtransplantation.ChinMedJ2019;132:1247-1249.

4.ChenWen-Hui,LinLan,WangXiao-Xingetal.RespiratoryarrestassociatedwithpolymyxinBinalungtransplantpatient.ChinMedJ2020;133:1375-1377.

5.ChenWenhui,SunLingxiaoetal.Clinicaloutcomesofceftazidime-avibactaminlungtransplantrecipientswithinfectionscausedbyextensivelydrug-resistantgram-negativebacilli.AnnTranslMed2020;8:39.

Teaching in the department: The department actively takes part in the standardized training of physicians in respiratory and critical care medicine and in the training of respiratory speciality physicians and nurses, so as to raise the awareness of lung transplantation among respiratory and critical care medicine specialists in China.

Honours obtained by the department:

The Department of Lung Transplantation received the "Top Ten Public Welfare Departments" award from China Medical Doctor News.

The nursing team of the Department of Lung Transplantation received the title of National Women's Civilized Post.

Other important matters: The staff of the department give full play to their own capacity for treating patients with respiratory critical illness and actively take part in support activities such as medical security for the Winter Olympic Games and frontline treatment of COVID-19 in Wuhan.

Location within the hospital: The department's outpatient clinic is located on the 2nd floor of the outpatient building of China-Japan Friendship Hospital (main hospital), in the outpatient clinic of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine; the ward of the Department of Lung Transplantation is located on floors 6-7 of Building B of China-Japan Friendship Hospital (North District).

Department telephone numbers: outpatient: 010-84205253; ward: 010-84206560/6566; nurses' station: 010-84206561/6555.