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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.","research_credit":{"name":"Yevhenii Kozlov","role":"Co-Founder of Bookimed","url":"https://us-uk.bookimed.com/ceo/kozlov/","contribution":"Research personally prepared and reviewed","assistance":"AI tools assisted source research."},"editorial_scope":"Source-based patient information; an individual treatment plan requires clinical review.","research_method":"How this guide is researched and compared Research project led by Yevhenii Kozlov . We link clinical guidance, primary studies and named hospital or offer sources beside the relevant statements. Comparisons distinguish individual operators from programme results and preserve the study population, follow-up and limitations. Prices are dated examples with their stated scope. Research and editorial preparation are separate from clinical review; no named clinician has medically reviewed this edition. Bookimed provides care coordination. Partner and reference programmes are identified from their sources; paid ordering is not used in our published-cohort comparison. 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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","links":[{"label":"TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period","url":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.124.015044"},{"label":"Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11130719/"}]},{"id":"team","title":"Clinical programme","text":"Clinical programme Tongji Hospital Wuhan → 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 Explore the programme and other specialists →","links":[{"label":"Tongji Hospital Wuhan →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/clinic-tongji-wuhan/"},{"label":"Tongji Hospital · cardiovascular surgery department","url":"https://www.tjh.com.cn/channels/1008.html"},{"label":"TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period","url":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.124.015044"},{"label":"Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11130719/"},{"label":"Explore the programme and other specialists →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/clinic-tongji-wuhan/"}]}],"introduction":"Heart surgery guide / Xiang Wei Xiang Wei · Decision guide Xiang Wei: transapical beating-heart septal myectomy Transapical beating-heart myectomy developed at Tongji · Wuhan, China Research by Yevhenii Kozlov · Co-Founder of Bookimed Updated 8 October 2026 Sources 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 XW cardiac surgeon Xiang Wei Tongji Hospital Wuhan → Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan · Wuhan, China. Read the clinical or research source ↗ 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 Compare septal myectomy experience →","related_documents":[{"id":"heart-surgery","title":"Heart surgery abroad: treatments, clinics and costs","kind":"home","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/","json_url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/wp-content/uploads/heart-surgery-hub-20261007/pages/heart-surgery.json"},{"id":"minimally-invasive","title":"Minimally invasive and robotic heart surgery","kind":"guide","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/minimally-invasive/","json_url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/wp-content/uploads/heart-surgery-hub-20261007/pages/minimally-invasive.json"},{"id":"hcm-myectomy","title":"Septal myectomy for obstructive HCM: compare treatment options","kind":"guide","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/hcm-myectomy/","json_url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/wp-content/uploads/heart-surgery-hub-20261007/pages/hcm-myectomy.json"},{"id":"surgeons","title":"Find cardiac surgeons and heart specialists by procedure","kind":"surgeons","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/surgeons/","json_url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/wp-content/uploads/heart-surgery-hub-20261007/pages/surgeons.json"},{"id":"surgeon-rankings","title":"Heart surgeon rankings by reported experience, method and results","kind":"guide","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/surgeon-rankings/","json_url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/wp-content/uploads/heart-surgery-hub-20261007/pages/surgeon-rankings.json"},{"id":"clinic-tongji-wuhan","title":"Tongji Hospital Wuhan: heart surgery expertise","kind":"clinic-profile","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/clinic-tongji-wuhan/","json_url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/wp-content/uploads/heart-surgery-hub-20261007/pages/clinic-tongji-wuhan.json"},{"id":"septal-myectomy-surgeon-comparison","title":"HCM and septal myectomy surgeon rankings: experience, methods and results","kind":"evidence-directory","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/septal-myectomy-surgeon-comparison/","json_url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/wp-content/uploads/heart-surgery-hub-20261007/pages/septal-myectomy-surgeon-comparison.json"}],"entity":{"id":"xiang-wei","name":"Xiang Wei","programme_id":"tongji-wuhan","role":"Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan","topics":["hcm","minimal"],"procedure_relevance":["transapical beating-heart septal myectomy"],"source_ids":["depth-tongji","rank-tongji418","rank-tongji61"],"official_url":"https://www.tjh.com.cn/channels/1008.html","profile":{"intro":"Xiang Wei directs cardiovascular surgery at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan. 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