Surgery Godfather-Chapter 552 - 501 Patient Number 1_2

From Yang Ping, Director Gao didn’t just learn surgery, he learned many other things, such as adopting an open-minded attitude towards learning and facing industry leaders with equal confidence.

Even though Robert was technically a student of Yang Ping, Yang still advocated for sending people to learn from Robert.

After all, that place is home to the world’s strongest orthopedics hospital, and there are many things worth learning, including advanced concepts, management approaches, and systems.

These things take time to digest, and they cannot be acquired quickly.

Director Gao showed Yang Ping pictures from the moment of the postgraduate trainees, showing how hard they were working.

They had fought their way into Sanbo Hospital through rigorous tests. During the exams, Dean Xia personally supervised the examination room.

For this examination, Dean Xia repelled all kinds of interference, including personal connections, notes slipped to him, or so-called recommendations.

Even for the limited recommendation quota, he only considered the truly eccentric geniuses. These unconventional candidates were evaluated by the hospital’s expert committee, who then decided who should be admitted.

None of these candidates had connections and for his refusal to cater to the privileged, Dean Xia offended many. However, being a national representative and national model worker, no one could do anything to him.

When someone suggested that Dean Xia should bend the rules a bit to avoid offending others, he swept the idea away with a broad hand: "Those who don’t do things guilty of conscience are not afraid of ghosts knocking at the door – why should I be afraid!"

So these people greatly cherished their work and studied very hard.

"Robert personally picked them up from the airport and had even paid out of his own pocket for their hotel accommodation, which was located right next to the hospital. Robert even treated them to a meal at the best restaurant in New York. On top of that, Robert personally tutored them on technical matters and took care of their livelihoods meticulously. They are probably the luckiest batch of trainees ever." Gao took the opportunity to chat with Yang Ping a bit.

There was no helping it, Robert was clever and cunning, he had built a close relationship with Director Gao and insisted that Gao report his deeds to Yang Ping, even reminding him to update Yang Ping regularly and not omit any important details.

Director Gao had no choice but to comply, after all, they were brothers.

As Robert put it, he and Director Gao were brothers, not ordinary brothers, but sworn brothers!

After Director Gao and Director Duan left, Yang Ping began to review the information compiled by Song Zimo. The research on treating scoliosis with external fixation was still progressing smoothly.

This was an essential step for all future research achievements by Yang Ping. Experiments completed in the system space need to be repeated in reality to obtain real data, and then gradually applied to clinical practice.

Therefore, in reality, it is also necessary to grasp research resources in order to comfortably translate the results of research from the system space into something legally viable.

Regarding research resources, besides establishing his own powerful laboratory, he also needs to establish gradual cooperation with some top external laboratories.

With a few substantial donations, the laboratory has purchased a lot of equipment, which are all used for stem cell muscle cultivation projects. This is the ultimate objective.

As for the external fixation treatment for scoliosis, it is merely a starter and not even a minor objective.

At present, there are two ways to create organs with stem cells. One is to use 3D printing technology to cultivate stem cells into target organ cells. These cells are scattered. Then, with the help of 3D printing technology and micro-supports, the organs are printed out with these cells as the material.

This method is currently mainstream, but its biggest drawback is that the resulting structure merely approximates a real organ at a certain level. When the structure is reduced to the microscopic level, there are differences from real organs. The manner in which the cells compose the organ is different from reality. These 3D printed organs can perform some organ functions, but they can’t develop normally and can’t last for long.

The second method is to use animals to grow organs, and then the organs are subject to antigen removal, such as using pigs to grow hearts, then removing antigens from the heart and transplanting it into a human.

Structurally, this organ is a completely normal heart, but being cross-species, there are still rejections no matter how carefully the antigens are removed.

Yang Ping has done a lot of research on these two methods and is planning to abandon these two approaches and directly use stem cells to cultivate organs.

Cultivating organs in vitro using stem cells, the organ currently being targeted is muscle tissue. If it is successful this will be revolutionary, but understandably the difficulty is high. No one has yet tried this method.

After reviewing the data, Yang Ping took a look at the new emails in his inbox.

"Dear Dr. Yang Ping, hello, I am Dr. Li Zehui from Cleveland. I have a very unfortunate piece of news to tell you. Not long ago in China, I mentioned a rare case to you, that little girl with situs inversus, tetralogy of Fallot, and left ventricular tumor, she passed away on the operating table. I deeply regret this. Strangely, a similar patient, even in a worse condition, appeared before me again. Is this God giving me a chance to atone? I am sincerely anxious and afraid to proceed, so I formally invite Dr. Yang to join me in the surgery. Detailed patient information is included in the attachment---"

Yang Ping remembered very well the six-year-old girl that Professor Li Zehui was talking about.

This patient was a rare case of situs inversus!

All her thoracic and abdominal organs were reversed, with the heart on the right, liver on the left, stomach and spleen on the right, not just reversed from left to right, but also from front to back.