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Medical Frontiers

Breakthroughs, new diagnostics and complex procedures reported by Chinese hospitals.

All storiesInternational patient stories (11) Oncology (35) Neurology & neurosurgery (26) Cardiology & heart surgery (14) Rare & hard-to-treat diseases (48) Orthopedics & sports medicine (3) Endocrine (1) Infectious disease (1) ENT & hearing (1) Organ failure & transplant (6) Rheumatology & immunology (1) Eye (2)

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World's First! Suzhou Doctors Complete Intercontinental Remote Surgery in Europe Using Domestic Robot

Oncology

World's First! Suzhou Doctors Complete Intercontinental Remote Surgery in Europe Using Domestic Robot

The thoracic surgery team used a domestic single-port robot and 5G technology to successfully perform a remote right upper lobectomy on a Romanian lung cancer patient across 8,000 kilometers, setting a global record for the first intercontinental single-port robotic thoracic surgery.

The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

Xijing Hospital Major Research Achievement Published in NatureVideo

Organ failure & transplant

Xijing Hospital Major Research Achievement Published in Nature

The study reports the world's first successful gene-edited pig liver transplantation into a human, with the transplanted pig liver functioning physiologically for 10 days without hyperacute rejection.

Xijing Hospital

World's First! First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Successfully Implements Domino Extracorporeal Liver Treatment

Organ failure & transplant

World's First! First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Successfully Implements Domino Extracorporeal Liver Treatment

Professor He Xiaoshun's team completed the world's first domino extracorporeal liver support therapy, successfully treating a patient with acute-on-chronic liver failure and creating conditions for liver transplantation by using the diseased liver for functional replacement.

The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Huashan Hospital Team Discovers Novel Therapeutic Target for Parkinson's DiseaseVideo

Neurology & neurosurgery

Huashan Hospital Team Discovers Novel Therapeutic Target for Parkinson's Disease

Yu Jintai's team published findings in Science, identifying for the first time globally that FAM171A2 protein acts as the critical 'fuse' for intercellular transmission of pathological α-synuclein in neurons. This provides new targets and candidate drugs for early intervention in Parkinson's disease.

Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University

Xinhua Hospital Performs World's First Trigeminal Motor Root-Abducens Nerve Transplantation

Rare & hard-to-treat diseases

Xinhua Hospital Performs World's First Trigeminal Motor Root-Abducens Nerve Transplantation

Professor Li Shiting's team completed the world's first trigeminal motor root to abducens nerve transplantation for a car accident patient with bilateral abducens nerve palsy, reconstructing nerve function and filling an international gap in cranial nerve injury surgery.

Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Ji Mei Team Successfully Performs World's First 5G Three-Site Remote Single-Port Robotic Surgery

Rare & hard-to-treat diseases

Ji Mei Team Successfully Performs World's First 5G Three-Site Remote Single-Port Robotic Surgery

Professor Ji Mei's gynecological team collaborated with primary hospitals in Xinjiang and Henan to complete the world's first 5G remote single-port robotic hysterectomy spanning 3000 km with three-site rotation, achieving technology dissemination to grassroots levels.

First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

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