Recently, Chinese Medical Association announced the list of winners of the 2023 Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award. With our university as the fourth completion institution, Professor Kong Derun from The First Affiliated Hospital as the fourth program finisher, and his doctoral student Zhang Qianqian as the sixth program finisher, the project Innovation and Promotion of Key Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of High-risk Esophageal and Gastric Varices in Cirrhosis Patients, which was completed in cooperation with Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University (Shandong Provincial Hospital), Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University and West China Hospital of Sichuan University, won the second prize of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award in 2023.
Focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of high-risk esophageal and gastric varices in cirrhosis patients, the project took the lead in using “titanium clip assisted” endoscopic gastric fundus tissue embolization to treat gastric varices with high risk of ectopic embolization combined with gastric and renal shunt, realized the innovation of the pressure measurement technology of esophageal varices in cirrhosis patients and the treatment system for high-risk esophageal varices bleeding in cirrhosis patients, accurately evaluated patients with high-risk bleeding for guiding treatment, and achieved clinical transformation.