On November 26th, the Department of Cardiac Macrovascular Surgery of Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital, under the supervision of Director Ni Buqing, successfully completed the first case of transapical mitral valve ValveClamp® surgery in Jiangsu Province after the approval of the marketing of the ValveClamp®.

Reporters interviewed the province's clinical medicine cardiothoracic surgery leading talent, vice president of the First Hospital of Nanjing, Professor Chen Xin, director of cardiothoracic surgery, close to his twelve years of struggle, to see and hear his all the way to glory.

At the 50th International Congress on Vascular and Endoluminal Vasculature (VEITH 2023), November 14-18, 2023, Prof. Francesco Liistro from the San Donato Hospital in Arezzo, Italy, presented the strategy of endovascular lithotripsy balloon (IVL) in combination with DCB therapy and compared the difference in efficacy between this therapy and DCB alone in the treatment of BTK lesions.

On November 20, the team of Prof. Chen Liangwan and Prof. Dai Xiaofu from the Department of Cardiac Surgery of Fujian Union Medical College Hospital successfully removed an artificial heart (left ventricular assist device, LVAD) implanted 2 years ago for a heart failure patient with recovered cardiac function, which is the first case of LVAD removal using percutaneous access occlusion surgery in Fujian Province.

On June 10, 2023, Tianfu Aortic Symposium was successfully held in Chengdu. At the conference, Prof. Shu Chang of Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, gave a wonderful online lecture on the topic of "Progress and Future of Minimally Invasive Treatment of Aortic Diseases".