High-risk patient suffers from stomach cancer, travels from place to place to seek treatment but didn’t find an effective solution.
70-years-old Mr. Gao, who lives in Shaanxi, was diagnosed with stomach cancer during a medical checkup four years ago. Mr. Gaos family accompanied him to a number of hospitals in Beijing to seek medical treatment, because Mr. Gao suffered from serious heart disease, the surgeries were all unsuccessful.
"At that time, the oncologist in Beijing was not unable to do the surgery, the main reason was that the hospital did not have specialized cardiovascular expert to ensure the safety of the surgery, they were afraid of getting into trouble.” Mr. Gaos son said.
Over the years, Mr. Gao has taken a conservative approach as his treatment.
In the middle of June this year, Mr. Gao, who was recuperating in Hainan, was caught by abdominal distension, difficulty eating, and rapid body wasting. After asking around, the family came to the newly opened Hainan Chengmei Hospital to seek treatment.
After further examination by experts from the Minimally Invasive Surgery Diagnosis and Treatment Center of the hospital, it was found that Mr. Gaos stomach tumor rapidly progressed, occupying two-thirds of the stomach space, and pyloric obstruction occurred, causing abdominal distension and eating difficulties.
Professor Yu Shuyong, well-known gastrointestinal tumor specialist in Hainan and Executive Vice President of Hainan Chengmei Hospital, introduced that Mr. Gaos operation faces three major risks: First, the patient has a serious myocardial infarction, and any slight mistake during the operation will endanger the patients life; Second, multiple lymph node metastases appeared in the abdominal cavity, the largest one was in the size of an egg, "lying" in the position of the "three tigers" of the hepatic portal, close to the common bile duct, hepatic artery, and portal vein, so the surgery was extremely difficult. If the metastatic lymph nodes are not "removed", the common bile duct will be quickly compressed, causing obstruction and jaundice and other symptoms. Third, postoperative rehabilitation is equally difficult. Patients with heart disease need "hemolysis" to keep the blood flowing. While the postoperative patients need "blood coagulation" to ensure that the surgical wound does not bleed.
Performed Complex Gastric Cancer surgery Successfully with multidisciplinary escort
Hainan Chengmei Hospital focuses on the construction of medical "center" and builds a multi-disciplinary and all-disciplinary diagnosis and treatment system. In short, not only the specialists in surgical oncology, but also the corresponding specialists in internal medicine are integrated in one center.
Professor Yu Shuyongs team, cardiovascular experts and anesthesiologists carefully evaluated the surgical risks and developed several risk management plans.
The surgery was performed by Professor Yu Shuyongs team, and the whole process was followed up and monitored by cardiovascular experts. The surgery was successfully completed in accordance with pre-operation plan, and not only the radical resection of the gastric tumor was carried out, but also achieved the complete removal of the metastatic lymph nodes without any other accidents.
After the surgery, multi-disciplinary intervention treatment made Mr. Gao passed the risk period safely .
"Many large hospitals in Beijing can not do such surgery, I did not expect that it could be completed in Hainan or even so smoothly, I am so grateful.” Mr. Gaos son said: "My father got out of bed on the third day after surgery, and about a week later, he could eat and drink, and his body recovered very quickly.” If not wearing such a hospital gown, no one would know that the old man had had such a big surgery.”
Professor Yu Shuyong (front left) visiting patients
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