Severe Heart Failure: Don’t Give Up and Visit Artificial Heart Clinic! (Samsung Medical Center) - SMC has opened the first artificial heart clinic in Korea.- The Clinic is run in multidisciplinary cooperation of the Department of Cardiology, the Division of Cardiosurgery and Korea’s only artificial heart coordinator team.- SMC uses the 3rd-generation LVAD and has been most successful in artificial heart implantation in Korea. SMC has opened the Artificial Heart Clinic for the first time in Korea...

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Asan Medical Center(AMC) recently performed its 30,000th breast cancer surgery. Starting in 1989 with 13 operations performed, AMC performed its 10,000th and 20,000th surgeries in 2007 and 2013, respectively, adding another 10,000 operations in just 4 years. Since 2013, AMC Breast Cancer Center has performed an average of 2,500 breast cancer operations every year.This means 1 in 9 breast cancer patients nationwide have undergone surgery at AMC. The Breast Cancer Center’s analysis of patients who...

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Asan Medical Center celebrates its 10,000 robotic surgeries Asan Medical Center(AMC) has reached its 10,000th case of robotic surgery. Since the hospital’s first robotic surgery was performed in 2007, it reached its 1,000th and 5,000th cases in 2010 and 2014, respectively, after which the hospital added an even more impressive 5,000 cases in just 3 years. This record seems to have been made possible by the fact that the annual number of robotic surgeries has steadily increased over the last 5 ye...

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Asan Medical Center(AMC) discovers intracellular specific nuclear receptor inhibits the growth of gastric cancer A research team led by Prof. Myung Seung-jae of the Department of Gastroenterology and Prof. Park Yoon-yong of the Department of Convergence Medicine discovered for the first time in Koreathat the nuclear receptors that control the expression of a gene inside cells prevents the growth of gastric cancer. Gastric cancer is the most common cancer that occurs in Korean men, yet the develo...

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