Zhao Shaokang’s Brave Heart: How a Preventive Open-Heart Surgery Saved His Life, Thanks to Renowned Doctor Wei Zheng

Former chairman of China Broadcasting CorporationZhao ShaokangPosting on Facebook, he said, “Recently I have undertaken the biggest project of my life, a preventive heart attack.operationDuring the operation the entire sternum is opened, the heart is stopped for 3 hours, the ascending aorta is replaced by an artificial blood vessel, the valve is replaced and the blood vessels are processed.the lifeScenes flash through him while he is unconscious. ” Wei Zheng, an authority on domestic cardiac surgery and director of Zhenxing Hospital who operated on Zhao Shaokang, noted that it was a difficult and complicated operation, but Zhao Shaokang recovered very quickly.

In recent years, Zhao Shaokang measured his blood pressure and found that his diastolic blood pressure was only 50 or 60 millimeters of mercury, and a doctor friend advised him to do a cardiac ultrasound and found that the aorta was enlarged, causing the aortic valve. Does not close tightly and blood pumped by the heart prevents reflux. He asked several famous doctor friends and the conclusion was almost unanimous, “Although your body is still good and your heart function is still strong, if you do surgery as soon as possible, Li Yuande, former dean of National Taiwan.” The university even asked: “Is there anything better, is it more important to your life?”

Zhao Shaokang recently underwent open-heart surgery, performed by Zhengxing Hospital director Wei Zheng (pictured), and had a scar of about 20 centimeters. File photo of this magazine

Zhao Shaokang said that Wei Zheng had always been his attending physician, and after discussion, he agreed to the initial surgery.

Wei Zheng said that the examination showed that the aortic valve of Zhao Shaokong’s heart was incompetent and the ascending aorta was dilated to 5 cm, which caused the blood reflux to the heart to occur in the future and the dilation of the ascending aorta could cause the risk of aortic dissection and sudden death, so Zhao Shaokang underwent heart surgery.

Wei Zheng noted that the operation is a “benthal operation,” which simultaneously replaces the aorta and ascending aorta, reconstructs the coronary artery connected to the ascending aorta, and reattachs the transplanted artificial ascending aorta. It takes about 5 days. 6 hours of aortic dilatation is often “extremely High systolic blood pressure and extremely low diastolic blood pressure” and “easy asthma”, which can occur in patients with high systolic blood pressure, with a normal blood pressure of 120 mmHg and a diastolic blood pressure of 80 mmHg. 160 and diastolic blood pressure below 60 mmHg combined with asthma should seek medical attention as soon as possible.

Wei Zheng said that Zhao Shaokang was hospitalized for more than 10 days, he had a scar of about 10 to 20 cm on his chest. Although he was hospitalized after removing the drainage tube, if the water is still not drained, Zhao Shaokang can go. Expect to return to work soon.

Zhao Shaokang said that half of the people who have diastolic blood pressure as low as that do not know what the problem is, and the other half who do know will try their luck and gamble rather than have such a major operation, because the operation has some risks.

After the operation, Zhao Shaokang asked Wei Zheng, how difficult was the operation? Wei Zheng said that if the difficulty of the operation is ten, then the difficulty of this operation is eight, and the difficulty of heart transplant is five. Zhao Shaokang said that during this operation “the heart stopped for several hours, which is equivalent to dying once and coming back to life. How to be a good person is a lesson in future life.”