Cardiac and Great Vessel Surgery Department 4

The Fourth Department of Cardiac and Great Vessel Surgery specializes in the surgical treatment of acquired heart disease in adults and structural heart disease in patients aged 3 and older. The department’s main clinical focus is the surgical treatment of adult heart disease; its range of surgical procedures and treatments includes coronary artery bypass grafting, valve replacement/repair, the modified Morrow procedure, radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), ventricular assist device implantation, minimally invasive valve surgery, stem-cell treatment for ischemic cardiomyopathy, cardiac and great-vessel surgery, and treatment of structural heart disease in patients aged 3 and older. In addition to routine clinical work, department members also undertake part of the teaching duties for the undergraduate Surgery course at Tianjin University, participate in project management for the construction of regional subcenters of the National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and for the development of the key specialty of cardiac and great-vessel surgery, and, under the leadership of the department director, serve as chief editors of multiple books, including “Baby’s ‘Heart’ Matters: A Must-Read for Families of Children with Congenital Heart Disease”; they also participate in editing and translating multiple books, including “Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery,” and have obtained one utility patent.