Cardiac and Great Vessel Surgery

The Department of Cardiac Surgery at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, was established in 1994. It is a comprehensive department integrating clinical care, medical research, teaching across three clinical disciplines, and a provincial standardized training base. It has four wards at the Qingchun Campus, Qiantang Campus, Grand Canal Campus, and Shaoxing Campus, with more than 50 authorized beds. It currently records more than 10,000 outpatient visits and more than 800 operations annually. It possesses advanced medical equipment that is first-rate in China and comprehensively equipped. Relying on the Zhejiang University platform and developed through direct collaboration with Loma Linda University Medical Center and Mayo Clinic in the United States, it has established one center and three clinical subspecialty groups and has become a well-known large medical institution in the province. The department currently has 24 staff members, including 3 senior professional and technical personnel; 8 hold doctoral degrees and 12 hold master's degrees, and nearly half of the physicians have pursued further training in European and American countries. The team's academic echelon is well structured, its technical strength is formidable, and it is energetic and highly motivated. It strives to become a domestically first-class and internationally renowned center for medical care, teaching, and research!

Technical Advantages

• Minimally invasive hybrid surgical treatment of aortic diseases.

• Valve-sparing treatment of aortic root aneurysms and bicuspid aortic valve malformations (Florida Sleeve technique, David technique).

• Minimally invasive treatment of atrial fibrillation.

• Transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAVI), transcatheter mitral valve intervention (TMVR, Mitral Clip).

• Thoracoscopic minimally invasive heart valve repair surgery.

• Coronary artery bypass grafting for coronary artery disease after multiple stent implantations, and surgical management of coronary artery disease complicated by ventricular septal perforation.

• Individualized comprehensive treatment of severe heart valve disease.

• Heart transplantation and artificial heart support therapy for patients with end-stage heart disease.

• Pulmonary endarterectomy.

• Participation in and guidance of the hospital's advanced life support ECMO team.

Academic Standing

Senior Member Institution of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Standing Committee Member Institution of the China Branch of the Asian Association of Heart Valve Diseases (AAHVD) Member Institution of the Organ Transplantation Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association Member Institution of the Professional Committee of Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery of the National Cardiovascular Disease Expert Committee Member Institution of the Expert Committee of the Joint Laboratory for Cardiac Surgery Big Data of the National Science and Technology Information Resources Comprehensive Utilization and Public Service Center Member Institution of the Interventional Valve Branch of the Specialized Committee of Endovascular Vascular Medicine of the Chinese Medical Association Standing Committee Member Institution of the Professional Committee of Valvular Heart Disease of the Chinese Research Hospital Association Standing Committee Member Institution of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Group of the Zhejiang Branch of the Chinese Medical Association Member Institution of the Pediatric Branch of the Congenital Heart Disease Group of the Zhejiang Branch of the Chinese Medical Association Member Institution of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Branch of the Zhejiang Medical Doctor Association Member Institution of the Expert Appraisal Committee of the Zhejiang Medical Association

Research Achievements

Since 2010, the department has undertaken 2 projects of the provincial Department of Science and Technology, 1 project of the National Natural Science Foundation, and 1 topic under a major project; since 2010, it has published more than 20 papers in domestic and international academic journals.