Led by honored Professor Guo Yingqiang, the cardiac minimally invasive valve team of West China Hospital, SCU, has promptly constituted a heart center performing transcatheter valve implantation of most cases in China. And Carried out by this team successfully, is the very first transcatheter surgical TAVI in China in 2014. To further facilitate the development of TAVI in China, Professor Guo and his colleagues have dedicated training courses for more than ten times, the Valve Forum for three times, live surgery broadcast at numerous domestic and international conferences, and assistance of minimally invasive valve surgery to more than 30 domestic centers.

Many cases presented by this team are documented as the first at home and even abroad, which attracts domestic and foreign patients seeking help from cardiac surgeons in West China Hospital. As for now, the received cases are over 300 while with a convincing success rate of 98%, including one as the oldest patient with aortic valve regurgitation. Furthermore, the team also win the center a worldwide reputation as the largest number of single-center aortic regurgitation TAVI implantation. Breaking the previous taboo of TAVI only for simple aortic valve regurgitation, it quickly became the largest center of transcatheter aortic regurgitation TAVI surgery with a world-leading success rate.