Cardiac and Great Vessel Surgery

The Department of Cardiac and Great Vessel Surgery was founded in 1960. It is the cardiac and great vessel surgery ward of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Cardiovascular Disease Institute and the largest center for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular surgical diseases in Inner Mongolia; at present it admits about 1,500 patients per year and performs more than 600 cardiac and vascular operations annually. Approved by the Ministry of Education, the department began independently recruiting master's students in 2004 and holds the authority to confer master's degrees. It has 52 beds and an independent postoperative cardiac surgery intensive care unit (cardiac surgery ICU). The department has a professional technical team that has received comprehensive, systematic, and formal medical education and high-quality cardiovascular surgical training. It currently has 14 physicians: 7 chief physicians, 4 associate chief physicians, and 3 attending physicians; 3 hold doctoral degrees in cardiac surgery, 2 are doctoral candidates, and 8 hold master's degrees; there are 27 nurses and 3 assistant nurses; 1 chief nurse, 3 deputy chief nurses, and 7 nurse supervisors. In 2007 it was approved by the National Health Commission as the only heart transplantation center in Inner Mongolia. In 2015 it became a member of the cardiovascular surgery clinical research alliance of Fuwai Hospital, the National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases. It has established close cooperation with the cardiac and great vessel surgery departments of renowned national cardiovascular hospitals such as Beijing Anzhen Hospital. The department actively participates in 6 research projects led by Fuwai Hospital and Anzhen Hospital under the national "12th Five-Year" and "13th Five-Year" Science and Technology Support Programs, national major science and technology projects, and special public-welfare industry research projects of the National Health Commission; it undertakes 8 provincial-level research projects of Inner Mongolia and has won 6 second prizes of the Inner Mongolia Medical Association Science and Technology Award; it also submits data to the Chinese Cardiac Surgery Registry and the Congenital Heart Disease Interventional Treatment Registry. In July 2020, it was designated by the National Cardiovascular Disease Quality Control Center as the lead unit for quality control of cardiovascular surgery in Inner Mongolia.

The department currently offers the following featured services:

I. Minimally invasive treatment of congenital (structural) heart disease:

(1) Percutaneous interventional treatment:

1. Patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal defect (ASD) occlusion

2. Ventricular septal defect (VSD) occlusion

3. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) occlusion

4. Pulmonary valve stenosis (PS) balloon dilatation

5. Interventional occlusion of coronary artery fistula

6. Interventional occlusion of ruptured aortic sinus aneurysm

(2) Minimally invasive small-incision transthoracic occlusion without cardiopulmonary bypass:

1. Minimally invasive small-incision ASD occlusion

2. Minimally invasive small-incision VSD occlusion

3. Minimally invasive small-incision PDA occlusion

(3) Totally thoracoscopic cardiac surgery

1. Thoracoscopic ASD repair

2. Thoracoscopic VSD repair

3. Thoracoscopic PDA clipping

(4) Small right thoracotomy ASD repair and tricuspid valvuloplasty.

II. Minimally invasive treatment of valvular heart disease

(1) Percutaneous interventional treatment:

1. Percutaneous balloon dilatation for mitral stenosis

2. Percutaneous balloon dilatation for pulmonary valve stenosis

(2) Minimally invasive small right thoracotomy valve surgery

1. Mitral bioprosthetic/mechanical valve replacement and tricuspid annuloplasty

2. Mitral valvuloplasty

3. Aortic bioprosthetic/mechanical valve replacement

(3) Totally thoracoscopic valve surgery

1. Mitral bioprosthetic/mechanical valve replacement and tricuspid valvuloplasty

2. Mitral valvuloplasty

3. Bipolar radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation

III. Minimally invasive treatment of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (coronary artery disease)

1. Minimally invasive small left thoracotomy off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG, single or multiple vessels)

2. Off-pump beating-heart coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)

3. Thoracoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting

4. Minimally invasive small-incision great saphenous vein harvesting

5. Minimally invasive small left thoracotomy off-pump CABG combined with one-stop percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) stent implantation

IV. Minimally invasive treatment of aortic dissection and aortic aneurysm

1. Endovascular repair (exclusion) of aortic dissection (Stanford type B, DeBakey type III) and branch-vessel fenestration reconstruction

2. Endovascular repair (exclusion) of traumatic aortic aneurysm

3. Endovascular repair (exclusion) of abdominal aortic aneurysm and branch-vessel fenestration reconstruction

V. Cardiac tumors: totally thoracoscopic resection of cardiac myxoma, minimally invasive small right thoracotomy resection of cardiac tumors

VI. Rheumatic valvular heart disease: mitral valve replacement + aortic valve replacement + tricuspid valvuloplasty + concurrent bipolar radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation

VII. Coronary artery disease surgery:

1. Coronary artery bypass grafting + intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABP)

2. Ventricular aneurysm resection + coronary artery bypass grafting

VIII. Aortic dissection and aortic aneurysm surgery

1. Bentall procedure: resection of ascending aortic aneurysm with replacement by a valved conduit

2. Wheat procedure: ascending aorta replacement with artificial vascular graft

3. Sun procedure: total aortic arch replacement with artificial vascular graft plus stented elephant trunk for aortic dissection

4. One-stop hybrid debranching surgery for aortic dissection (aortic aneurysm)

Expert outpatient clinics:

1. Liu Zhiping: Monday afternoon, Wednesday afternoon

2. Wang Dacheng: Monday all day

3. Wang Jian: Tuesday all day

4. Zhao Long: Tuesday all day

5. Guo Junxiao: Monday morning, Wednesday morning, Saturday morning

6. Ren Jie: Thursday all day

7. Li Yumin: Thursday all day

8. Tian Zexiang: Friday morning

9. Guo Wei: Friday afternoon

10. Li Shuzhen: Friday morning

11. Zhang Yulong: Wednesday all day

Address:

1. Cardiac and Great Vessel Surgery ward, 5th floor of the Surgery Building

2. Consultation rooms 24 and 25, 4th floor, West Zone 3 of the Outpatient Building; Cardiac and Great Vessel Surgery clinic, Monday to Saturday

Contact telephone: Inpatient department — physicians' office: 0471-3451496; nurses' station: 0471-3451497