Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1213 - 942 Are You Embarrassed?

Chapter 1213: Chapter 942 Are You Embarrassed?

This patient comes from the Karen family in Sweden, which is also a traditional and prominent European family.

Sweden did not participate in either World War One or World War Two, so it did not suffer the devastation of war, amassing a great deal of wealth. It is the first country in the world to establish a modern welfare system, which speaks volumes about the country’s surplus. The Karen family is one of the tycoons in Sweden, with business interests spread across Europe and North America.

Mr. Karen’s case is very classic. This is not an ordinary Commando surgery. He had undergone surgery twice, with the second one being the Commando surgery. After the operation, a more severe endocarditis occurred, with bacteria destroying the entire surgical outcome, resulting in more extensive damage to the heart than before.

The third surgery must remove the previously replaced aortic valve and mitral valve, and perform a replacement again, which is equivalent to a renovation or "left chamber regression," followed by mitral and aortic double valve ring expansion reconstruction + mitral valve replacement + aortic valve replacement surgery.

If we liken the aortic and mitral valves to two doors, their attachment sites inside the heart chamber are the doorframes.

The first ordinary valve replacement surgery dealt with a damaged door, while the doorframe was intact, so it only involved replacing the door.

But the second Commando surgery involved both the door and the doorframe being damaged, and the surgery replaced both.

The third surgery faced even more serious problems. Not only were the door and doorframe damaged, but the wall the doorframe was attached to was also damaged, making the surgery much more difficult. No doctors in Europe dared to perform this type of surgery, which involved fixing the wall and replacing both the doorframe and the door, and in such cases, the only option would be to replace the house.

Therefore, the European doctors recommended waiting for a heart transplant, which is the last resort in cardiac surgery.

Mr. Karen’s doctors soon made contact with the Sanbo Hospital Surgery Research Institute in China and discussed Mr. Karen’s condition in detail. After assessment, Mr. Karen could be transferred by medical aircraft. Professor Yang Ping instructed them on what to pay attention to during the flight. After handling Mr. Karen’s visa in Sweden, he was transferred to China by medical aircraft.

To ensure the success of Mr. Karen’s treatment in China, Ning Qi sent a specialized support team to assist with the communication and coordination for Mr. Karen in China.

After a flight of more than ten hours, Mr. Karen finally met the legendary Professor Yang, a demigod in the eyes of some European tycoons, the last line of defense for life.

When the tycoon heard that the Surgical Research Institute did not have private wards and that he would need to stay in the Overseas Chinese Building far from the institute, he preferred to stay in a regular ward, feeling a greater sense of security.

However, Professor Yang Ping felt that he would be better off staying in the CCU, given the severity of his condition, which made him unsuitable for a standard ward.

Good news tends to spread by word of mouth within circles, and Mr. Karen heard from a friend in Germany that China’s Professor Yang Ping was the best doctor in the world, surpassing all doctors from Europe and America, many of whom were his students.

This reignited Mr. Karen’s desire for life. At just that time, a Chinese corporation was discussing cooperation with his family business, so seizing this opportunity, his son sought help from their Chinese friends, who readily agreed and quickly arranged everything with enthusiasm.

A few days earlier he was still worrying about the situation, but now Mr. Karen was already lying in a Chinese hospital receiving the best treatment in the world.

At present, the Surgical Research Institute still does not have its own ICU. Some critically ill patients, if trauma patients, are placed in the Trauma ICU; if cardiovascular patients, in the CCU; others are placed in the general ICU.

Professor Yang Ping plans to set up his own ICU, which doesn’t need to be large, just a few beds, with key equipment up to par, and enough competent doctors and nurses to provide a safer guarantee for major surgeries for critically ill patients.

Mr. Karen isn’t exactly old at just sixty years of age, and he is still in a leading position within his family business. At Karolinska University Hospital, doctors said the only option was to wait for a heart transplant, as there was no alternative and, currently, they couldn’t risk the transplant—it had to wait until the infection was under control.

A heart transplant is a last resort, and if there was a better option, who would want to take that final step?

Commando surgery is a world-class cardiac valve operation, first reported by Doctor David TE in 1997 and originally used for infective endocarditis.

The surgery involves opening the entire root of the aorta and the top of the left atrium to perform a double valve replacement after reconstructing the curtain of the aorta. The difficulty of the surgery lies in using only a single layer of bovine pericardium to reconstruct the root of the aorta, the curtain of the aorta, and the top of the left atrium. During surgery, matching valve sizes meticulously to prevent uncontrollable bleeding is essential, and postoperative complications are common.

Thus, the Commando surgery is one of the world’s most difficult valve operations, and very few centers in the country have carried out similar surgeries. To date, there are few reports in the Chinese literature.

Now, Mr. Wanlun’s Commando surgery has failed, and he needs to undergo left chamber regression and another Commando surgery.

Subspecialties in cardiac surgery typically include congenital heart disease, heart valve disease, major vascular disease, coronary heart disease, etc., with Commando surgery falling under heart valve surgery.

The heart, brainstem, cervical spine, and pancreas are some of the main focus areas of the Surgical Research Institute, which are some of the most technically complex and difficult fields in surgery.

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Xiao Su’s due date is getting closer, and Mrs. Su has already taken early retirement so that she can take care of Xiao Su and the child, allowing Professor Yang to concentrate on his work.

Qiu Nuo, a close university friend of Xiao Su, has been sent by Peking Union Medical College Hospital to the Sanbo Hospital Surgery Research Institute for advanced studies, specifically in the operating room.