Expert team of the Institute of Hematology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology has applied CAR-T cell immunotherapy to treat systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE). Two weeks after CAR-T infusion, the inflammatory and Immunological indicators of Ms. Rao, the patient, have returned to normal level.   The patient and experts from the Institute of Hema...

On March 3, with the assistance of the fourth-generation platform, da Vinci Xi surgical robot, the team of Pediatric Surgery Department performed total resection of recurrent retroperitoneal multiple cystic lymphangioma for a four-and-a-half-year-old child. Since then, the fourth-generation da Vinci Xi surgical robot has been put into service at Union Hospital.“The tumor is quite large, and ti...

On February 26, a team led by Professor Dong Nianguo, Director of Cardiovascular Surgery Department, and Professor Xia Jiahong, successfully performed a heart transplant surgery for a 53-day-old, 3.9kg infant with dilated cardiomyopathy complicated with noncompaction of ventricular myocardium and end-stage heart failure.So far, the infant’s has been extubated and steadily recovered with stable...

In December 2022, the Ward Caring School for the patients of Pediatric Hematology in Union Hospital has celebrated its 20th anniversary. As China’s first ward caring school, its volunteer team has grown over the past 20 years from only a few medical staff to more than 18,000 volunteers, bringing knowledge and happiness to over 40,000 children patients. 01 First in China to open a ward caring s...

Recently, a young village doctor from Lincang, Yunnan Province, who suffered from congenital severe spinal deformity of nearly 150 degrees, finally got her spine straight under the joint treatment by the MDT team from Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (“Union Hospital”). Luo Nawa, born in 1995, has twice been awarded the title of “Most Beau...

On November 20, 2022, the Fudan Version of 2021 China Hospital Ranking and 2021 China Hospital Specialty Reputation Ranking were released, among which Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology took the 7th place. The hospital has been ranked among the top ten for three consecutive years, standing firmly at the top level nationwide. In the China Hospit...

On October 27, 2022, the 2nd Wuhan Forum of Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer hosted by the Pancreatic Surgery Department of Union Hospital was successfully held online. The Forum invited a number of well-known experts and scholars in the field of immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer at home and abroad, and had indepth academic discussions on the characteristics of immune microenvironment for ...