Professor Ying-xu Li at the Casa di Salute Santa Lucia

The well-known Professor Ying-xu Li, director of the metabolic minimally invasive surgery service at Qujing Second People’s Hospital in China, observed some operations performed at the Casa di Salute Santa Lucia of the Nefrocenter group, in San Giuseppe Vesuviano. Professor Ying-xu Li is the author of numerous articles on metabolic surgery with extensive experience in the field of bariatric surgery. The surgeon attended the operations performed by Dr. Giovanni Carandente Sicco, head of the General Surgery service of the Casa di Salute, and by the surgeon Luigi Prisco, both experts in advanced surgical techniques.

The meeting between the distinguished Chinese surgeon and his Italian colleagues was an important opportunity for exchange. The meeting, in fact, led to a mutual exchange of knowledge and surgical strategies between the doctors of the two countries.

The medical team performed two surgical operations at Santa Lucia. They performed a laparoscopic right hemicolectomy on a patient with cancer and two Sleeve Gastrectomy operations.

The goal of the collaboration is to further improve the quality of the care provided to patients. For this reason, Professor Li’s visit to the Clinica Santa Lucia was a direct benefit for the patients who rely on the expertise of the doctors of the Nefrocenter group facility.

The meeting, in fact, showed how collaboration among high-level professionals can lead to continuous improvement of surgical practices. And, as a result, to a higher quality of healthcare.

Medicine, in constant evolution, in fact demands exchanges of views in order to improve new surgical techniques. This reduces risks for the patient and improves recovery times.

For this reason, the meeting between Professor Ying-xu Li and Drs. Giovanni Caradente Sicco and Luigi Prisco is part of the key events needed to ensure that surgeons remain up to date on the latest techniques and innovations. Always with the goal of improving patients’ quality of life. The Casa di Salute Santa Lucia thus confirms itself as a center of excellence in abdominal surgery. A facility ready to face the challenges of the future with competence and humanity.