Expert guides on medical tourism, treatments, and healthcare in China.
XJTU First Affiliated Hospital's Lugang campus deployed a robotic navigation system for pinpoint screw fixation in a femoral neck fracture — expanding smart orthopedics from spine to trauma.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital's cardiac surgery team published high-level evidence in JAHA resolving a decades-old clinical dilemma — when to operate on infective endocarditis patients with brain complications.
West China Hospital performed China's first combined transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve replacement with balloon-assisted leaflet displacement — solving a problem that would have required risky repeat open-heart surgery.
An elderly Taiwanese traveler suffered a devastating hip fracture while visiting Wudang Mountain. Wuhan Union Hospital performed a 40-minute minimally invasive hip replacement — she was standing the next morning.
A young patient with dangerously uncontrollable blood pressure was found to have multiple paragangliomas. Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital removed all tumors laparoscopically in one session.
Xi'an Jiaotong University First Affiliated Hospital's gene therapy trial achieved a 96% LDL reduction in familial hypercholesterolemia patients with a single IV infusion — results published in Nature Medicine.
A 70-year-old man from Kyrgyzstan traveled to Xi'an for CAR-T cell therapy after 8 years of fighting multiple myeloma. He achieved complete remission — and celebrated his birthday cancer-free.
A 30-year-old woman diagnosed with acute leukemia during pregnancy delivered a healthy full-term baby at Tongji Hospital — thanks to a rare dual treatment strategy.
Surgeons at Xi'an Jiaotong University First Affiliated Hospital used magnetic compression to reconnect a severed pancreatic duct — avoiding reopening the abdomen entirely.
Surgeons at Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital performed a kidney transplant on a 6kg infant with renal failure — pushing the boundaries of what's possible in pediatric organ transplantation.
A 68-year-old woman suffered simultaneous brain hemorrhage and stroke. Zhongshan Hospital's neurosurgery team resolved both in a single 1-hour procedure using a flow-diverting stent.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital pioneered a bent-needle vitreous lavage technique — a 2-minute procedure under local anesthesia that treats post-surgical eye bleeding without reopening the eye.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital is building a 15-department mental health center integrating psychological care into medical treatment — a model that benefits international patients.
Tangdu Hospital achieved a national first — using integrated PGT-Plus technology to screen embryos for chromosomal and single-gene defects simultaneously, delivering a healthy baby.
