10-month-old Delek's liver was failing due to congenital biliary atresia. His family traveled 2900 km from Tibet to Hangzhou, for the liver transplantation that his life depended solely on. Finally, Delek could have a new life with a new liver.
On July 31, 14-year-old Coco (pseudonym) looked at the cotton candy-like clouds in the blue sky outside the flight cabin and found inner peace that she had never felt before.
Recently, Ms. LIU received the endoscopic lumpectomy at SAHZU to remove a giant tumor in her breast. The surgery is the first of its kind in Zhejiang province.
A special patient arrived at SAHZU Eye Hospital on June 24, and had a new contact lens.
In the occasion of the World IBD Day on May 19, we invite IBD patients to share their stories, so that this disease can be learned by more people, and those who are disturbed by it could embrace life in a more optimistic way.
Recently, a patient was presented in the SAHZU Emergency Center with a pair of broken chopsticks poked in his right eye.
37-year-old LI Hong was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. After a bowel resection and stoma surgery, LI Hong gave birth to a healthy baby girl with SAHZU's multidisciplinary efforts.
13-year-old girl has a 5 cm leg length discrepancy due to fall from the sixth floor.
31-year-old Mr. ZHAO, has nearsightedness (myopia) since he was a student, and his myopia level has been measured at -6.00 diopters in both eyes since he became an adult. However, during the past six months, he felt a progressive decrease in vision in his left eye and increased fatigue in both eyes. "Since last month, I started to have trouble seeing at night when driving, and even on sunny days outdoors, my vision is blurred." Because of his heavy work load, Mr. ZHAO naturally thought it was just deterioration of myopia and intended to visit the eye clinic afterwards.
The Neurology ward V of SAHZU is an inpatient ward entirely for patients with rare diseases, the only one in China. These stories are about the patients there.
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).
Dr. Lim Shin Hoei is an anesthesiologist from Penang, Malaysia. She was trained at SAHZU for trans-esophageal echocardiogram (TEE) and cardiothoracic anesthesia for six months. Congratulation to Dr. Lim!
Dr. Sujai Nikhil from India has finished a three month training at SAHZU focusing on interventional cardiology procedures and structural heart problems. Watch what he has gained from this program!