On July 12, Professor Mohamed Hosni, Head of the Egyptian Vascular and Endovascular Society (EVES), leading a team of Egyptian experts, paid an academic visit to the Department of Vascular Surgery in the Second Xiangya Hospital. Li Zhihong, Vice President of CSU, and relevant officials from Xiangya School of Medicine and the Second Xiangya Hospital attended the events organized with the visiting scholars.

For better exchanges in vascular disease diagnosis and treatment techniques, the Department of Vascular Surgery arranged 7 endovascular aortic surgeries and several peripheral vascular intervention procedures. Head Mohamed Hosni, General Secretary Sherif Omer, together with three Egyptian professors of vascular surgery, Ahmad Gamal, Ahmed A. Hamid, and Assem Aboushady, participated in the morning rounds and bedside rounds and observed all procedural steps of each aortic surgery. These included an emergency treatment of a patient with traumatic thoracic aortic dissection and a surgery in a patient with recurrent abdominal aortic aneurysm following type A aortic dissection surgery. Professor Shu Chang, Director of the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Second Xiangya Hospital, performed all surgical procedures methodically, witnessed by the visiting experts.

It is reported that Professor Shu Chang has been invited to Egypt multiple times for academic discussions and surgical demonstrations, and has signed cooperation agreements with Egyptian counterparts to further strengthen exchanges in the field of vascular surgery.

(First Reviewer: Wang Yiwei, Second Reviewer: Deng Haodi, Third Reviewer: Tang Xiaojun)

Source: The Second Xiangya Hospital  Author: Zhu Jieting, Zhang Xiong

Original article link: https://news.csu.edu.cn/info/1006/159148.htm