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Xiang Wei: transapical beating-heart septal myectomy

Transapical beating-heart myectomy developed at Tongji · Wuhan, China

Research by Yevhenii Kozlov · Co-Founder of BookimedUpdated 8 October 2026Sources linked throughout

At a glance

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.

A different route to the septum

Tongji describes transapical beating-heart septal myectomy, avoiding cardiopulmonary bypass in the studied technique.

Sources: Tongji Hospital · cardiovascular surgery department · TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period

Method-specific clinical series

The larger publication reports 418 patients with varied anatomy; an earlier 61-patient paper addresses midventricular obstruction separately.

Sources: TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period · Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction

Developed by a named team

The current department page identifies Wei as director and describes his team’s transapical myectomy system.

Sources: Tongji Hospital · cardiovascular surgery department

cardiac surgeon

Xiang Wei

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Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan

Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan · Wuhan, China.

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Reported surgical experience

1,000+ TA-BSM for HCM

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 2026-10-08
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Potential advantages

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Procedure-specific research

Published Tongji cohorts

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

Clinical programme

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Wuhan, China

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.

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

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