Recently, SAHZU specialists have been invited to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to demonstrate their expertise.
Prof. YAN Sheng, a HPB surgeon and the executive vice chair of SAHZU HPB Surgery, led his team in successfully performing a Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation (TP-IAT)for Ms. ZHU, who was suffering from late-stage pancreatic cancer. This procedure also set a new global record as the oldest patient to ever undergo such a surgery.
SAHZU-Harvard International Medical Innovation Forum, a special session organized by the Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU) in collaboration with Harvard University, will be held online on the evening of Friday, August 29th.
Christine, a young woman from the Philippines, was once in despair due to acute leukemia. But her new life began here in Hangzhou, China after undergoing stem cell transplant at SAHZU Hematology.
SAHZU Neurologist Prof. LOU Min and her team recently found that, despite an increased risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, intravenous alteplase provided functional benefit to acute ischemic stroke patients who had salvageable brain tissue but did not undergo initial thrombectomy, when administered 4.5 to 24 hours after stroke onset.
SAHZU President and Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. WANG Jian'an and his team are invited to broadcast a complex transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure live at the SEOUL VALVES 2025 on August 7, 2025.
Two international guidelines spearheaded by Chair of SAHZU Ultrasound Medicine Prof. HUANG Pintong were unanimously approved for development by the International Ultrasound Medicine Alliance Committee.
Prof. WANG Jian'an was invited to Kocaeli University School of Medicine to proctor transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures using China's self-developed devices, on July 22.
Singer TANK (Lv Jianzhong) from the island of Taiwan, was on the verge of death due to familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy complicated by liver failure. At the Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU), he successfully underwent Asia's first simultaneous heart and liver transplantation for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy complicated by liver failure and was discharged from the hospital on April 7, 2025.
China's first successful implantation of a closed-loop spinal nerve interface, a breakthrough in neuro-engineering is led by a team of doctors and researchers at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Nanhu Brain-computer Interface Institute, Brain-Machine Intelligence Lab, and the College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science.
SAHZU President and Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. WANG Jian'an was invited to Kocaeli University School of Medicine to proctor transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures using China's self-developed devices, on July 22.
A new study led by SAHZU researchers has identified ways by which some microbes might influence cancer immunotherapy, suggesting a potential microbial-based adjuvant approach to improve the responsiveness of immunotherapy. Their results were published in Cell1 in March 2024.
Italian surgeons Drs. Michele Cricrì and Federico Mongardini and Mexican surgeon Dr. Mitre Reyes have recently completed a three-month clinical training program at SAHZU Colorectal Surgery, as the second group of trainees of International Colorectal Surgery Training Academy of China (ICSTAC).