Liver Surgery

The Department of Liver Surgery of Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine is a National Clinical Key Specialty, a Shanghai Clinical Medical Center for Major Priorities, a Shanghai Key Clinical Specialty, the Shanghai Organ Transplantation and Immunoengineering Technology Research Center, the Shanghai Institute of Organ Transplantation, and the Shanghai Liver Transplantation Quality Control Center; it is the only national organ transplant physician training base in Shanghai and the world's largest liver transplantation center. The discipline specializes in adult and pediatric liver transplantation, with pediatric liver transplantation as its signature technology, and has become a clinical medical center integrating surgical, minimally invasive, targeted, and other comprehensive treatment modalities for end-stage liver disease and liver cancer. In 2017 and 2018, the number of liver transplants exceeded 800 in each of two consecutive years, setting a world record for a single center. In 2006, the department formed the first pediatric liver transplantation professional team in China, comprising transplant surgery, pediatric medicine and surgery, pediatric anesthesiology, and intensive care; by 2023, it had completed more than 3,000 pediatric liver transplants, its annual single-center liver transplant volume had ranked first in the world for 10 consecutive years, and its 1-year and 5-year post-transplant survival rates led globally. The discipline has taken the lead in undertaking more than 120 provincial/ministerial-level and higher-level projects, including the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China Major Research Plan, the National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Program, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, with research funding exceeding 100 million. It has published more than 270 SCI papers in internationally authoritative journals including Cell, Gut, Gastroenterology, and J Hepatology, with a highest single-paper impact factor of 64.5. The discipline led the establishment of China's first Professional Committee for Pediatric Organ Transplantation and led the development of the first Chinese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pediatric Liver Transplantation. It has received the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Award, and the First Prize of the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award.