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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:2147-2155
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Our surgical heritage

The evolution of cardiovascular surgery in China

Song Wan, MD, PhDa*, Anthony P. C. Yim, MDa

a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

* Address reprint requests to Dr Wan, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
e-mail: swan{at}cuhk.edu.hk

The history of the development of cardiovascular surgery in China was little known to the West not only because the majority of the earlier reports were published almost exclusively in the Chinese language but also because China was essentially closed to the West before the 1980s. We present here an account of how some Chinese surgeons struggled to establish a new specialty in a country that makes up more than one fifth of the world population.




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