Professor Zhang of the respiratory department immediately said, "Team Leader Gao, let me tell you some data. In the past 10 years, more than 30 tertiary hospitals in Xia have carried out lung replacement surgery, but no more than 5 hospitals have persisted in the past 10 years.

At present, the hospitals that have obtained the lung transplant surgery admission certificate are only enough for a few tertiary hospitals in Yanjing, Shanghai and Yangcheng, and even the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangda does not have this qualification. Xia Guo undergoes less than 200 lung exchange surgeries every year, and the five-year survival rate is less than 40%, and there are very few patients who survive for ten years. Many patients have just come off the operating table and have died of infection. ”

Professor Zhang analyzed this problem from a professional point of view, he said: "If we want to perform lung exchange surgery, we must first find a suitable lung source, and then contact experts in Yanjing or Shanghai, of course, if there is time, it is best to contact experts from relevant hospitals in the United States and Maple Leaf Country, their skills are better." ”

Jiang Hongbao felt that he had no strength all over his body at this time, and it was impossible to go abroad, because his current body and no lower limbs were not enough, and he didn't have enough time and energy.

So what about finding a doctor in a hospital in Yanjing or Shanghai? You still have to wait for the lungs, and you have to face the extremely high mortality rate, even if you succeed, as long as you accidentally get infected in the future, you will die.

To bet or not to bet?

Jiang Hongbao must take a gamble, because if he is not treated, he will only have a life span of less than a year.

"Professor Zhang, which hospital in Xia Guo do you say can have lungs replaced?" Jiang Hongbao didn't expect that he was here to rebuild his legs, but now he was going to have his lungs replaced.

Professor Zhang said: "If you need it, we can help you contact the experts in Yanjing, but whether there is a lung source or not, whether your physical condition is suitable for lung replacement, this is not our final say." ”

"What does Team Leader Gao think?" Professor Zhang graduated from Jiangcheng University School of Medicine with a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester.

When Jiang Hongbao was admitted, Professor Zhang had a different opinion, in fact, the best treatment for such a severe pulmonary fibrosis patient is to go to a place with good air and environment to continue to take medicine and recuperate, if you are lucky, the condition can be controlled, and it is still possible to live for a year and a half. Not tossing is the best treatment.

If you want to be treated, then you can try to change the lungs, but the surgery must be done by experts from Shanghai or Yanjing. This is Professor Zhang's judgment in his own specialty, whether it is Pangu Technology or the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University, there is absolutely no lung replacement technology.

Gao Siqi said: "The lung replacement surgery is to be done, but it is not done by experts from other hospitals, it is performed by us. The procedure is part of reconstructive treatment, so we don't need to apply for clinical trial approval. ”

"Reconstructive therapy?" Professor Zhang and the others exclaimed, "Is reconstructive therapy rebuilding lungs?"

In the concept of the doctors of the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangda University, reconstructive surgery must be to reconstruct the limbs, how is it possible to reconstruct the lungs, and how can the lungs be rebuilt?

Everyone had a stomach full of questions.

Professor Zhang was a little excited, lung reconstruction treatment?

One million people die every year from lung diseases, and about 150,000 people die from lung fibrosis diseases such as pneumoconiosis. If the lungs can really be reconstructed, it will be another great achievement in medicine after the reconstruction of limbs.

Gao Siqi first told everyone about his design plan.

The surgery is definitely an operation, and it is a thoracotomy.

"Based on the analysis of Mr. Jiang's lung CT scan, we formulated two surgical plans. ”

Although Gao Siqi did not study medicine, life science and medicine have many things in common, and it can even be said that life science guides the development of medicine.

"We're going to remove about half of Mr. Jiang's lungs, which are completely fibrotic and broken," she said. After resection, we weave a biofilm at the site of resection to induce some healthy lung tissue to develop into new lung tissue and connect with the original tissue. ”

Gao Siqi said: "The first operation is completed after we establish 10,000 biofilms and induce healthy cells. We close the wound and continue to add inducers to the lungs. ”

"Will there be a tube for the lungs with an inducer?" Professor Zhang asked.

"In order to get infected after surgery, the tube will be taken out of the chest as far as possible and measures must be taken to prevent infection. ”

"Oh my God!" Professor Zhang exclaimed.

Gao Siqi simply described it, and Professor Zhang knew what the significance of lung reconstruction treatment was.

Gao Siqi also said: "The surgery will preserve the patient's remaining lung function, and it will not be as dangerous as a lung replacement." Moreover, the newly grown lung tissue is its own, there will be no rejection, and if it is successful, then the patient will be the same as a healthy person. ”

Jiang Hongbao was excited to sit up and prepare to ask something, but was stopped by Gao Siqi, she said: "It takes a week to half a month from the first operation to the full development of new lung tissue. We will definitely be on a ventilator at the time of surgery, there is no doubt about that. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Siqi looked at Jiang Hongbao and said: "After the operation, we will try to cut off the ventilator, if your respiratory system is unstable and cannot provide the necessary oxygen for the body, then our ventilator will always be inserted in your trachea, and you will remain in a coma until your fresh lung tissue can take on the function of transporting oxygen." ”

"A month later, we will have a second operation. The second operation will remove your remaining sick lung tissue, induce the healthy lung tissue to continue to develop, and finally achieve complete replacement of your fibrotic lung tissue, and the second operation will also have about half a month of tissue development, at this time you will have a healthy lung. ”

GAO SIQI PUT HER HANDS IN FRONT OF XIONG AND SAID, "IF EVERYTHING GOES WELL, IN A MONTH TO TWO MONTHS, MR. JIANG WILL HAVE A HEALTHY LUNG, AND YOU CAN DO AEROBIC EXERCISE LIKE YOUNG PEOPLE, AND EVEN CLIMB MOUNTAINS AND TRAVEL TO THE PLATEAU." After the lung surgery is completed, we can do a lower limb reconstruction. Your entire treatment session is expected to last half a year or more. ”

"Really! Can this really be the case!" Jiang Hongbao couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and couldn't wait to say: "I'm willing, I'm willing to accept lung reconstruction treatment!"

Jiang Hongbao listened to the analysis between Professor Zhang and Gao Siqi, and clearly understood that although the lung reconstruction surgery has a long treatment cycle, the risk is extremely low, and compared with lung replacement, there is no rejection reaction.

If the treatment is really successful, it is not for the sake of the three-year and five-year survival rate that the problem of rejection and infection is feared, but to have an excellent quality of life.

Professor Zhang kept nodding his head in disbelief: "Team Leader Gao, Pangu Technology has completely surpassed the limits of medicine. ”