Tongji Hospital Wuhan · Decision guide
Wuhan, China · Septal myectomy through the apex on a beating heart
Tongji’s HCM contribution is transapical beating-heart septal myectomy, developed by Xiang Wei’s team. The entry point and heart support differ from conventional transaortic myectomy and Cui’s infra-axillary operations.
The current department page names Wei as director and describes the team’s transapical myectomy system.
Sources: Tongji Hospital · cardiovascular surgery department
The evidence includes a 418-patient series and an earlier 61-patient study focused on midventricular obstruction.
Sources: TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period · Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction
The described method avoids cardiopulmonary bypass in the studied operation.
Sources: TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period
Multiple centres · Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated · published 2024-12-23 · counting date 2024-12-23
Adoption across 15 hospitals; this count describes the technique’s network, not Xiang Wei’s personal or Tongji-only volume.
HUST academic advances: Xiang Wei TA-BSM programme ↗ · source read 2026-10-08Your diagnosis, selected specialist and treatment priorities.
Sources: Tongji Hospital · cardiovascular surgery department · TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period · Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction
Sources: Tongji Hospital · cardiovascular surgery department · TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period · Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction
Wuhan · China
cardiac surgeon
Xiang Wei directs cardiovascular surgery at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan. His team’s myectomy system approaches the septum through the heart’s apex on a beating heart, a distinct route from transaortic or infra-axillary surgery.
Sources: Tongji Hospital · cardiovascular surgery department · TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period
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The comparison guide retains the team’s larger clinical series and the earlier 61-patient study as separately attributed evidence. Patient selection, follow-up and the method are visible in those cards.
How to interpret this: These publications describe programme experience. Their results must not be attributed to Cui or compared as a risk-adjusted league table of individual surgeons.
Sources: TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period · Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction
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