Wuhan Union Hospital (HUST) — international patients
China's national leader in heart transplantation, at one of Wuhan's oldest teaching hospitals with a 160-year history
About
Its flagship program is cardiac transplantation: the Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery department has led China in annual heart-transplant volume for several consecutive years, with survival outcomes at an internationally advanced level, and has performed pioneering pediatric heart-transplant cases. The hospital holds 10 national key (incubating) disciplines and 25 national clinical key specialties, spanning hematology (stem-cell transplantation, leukemia, multiple myeloma), orthopedics (spine, joint, trauma, pediatric and sports medicine — ranked nationally #1 in specialty reputation for over a decade), general surgery, urology, and oncology (including a proton-therapy center).
For international patients, the hospital runs a dedicated International Outpatient Department on the 9th floor of the New Outpatient Building at its main campus, offering appointment-based access across roughly 40 clinical specialties with English-speaking physicians and nursing staff.
Advantage specialties
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Founded in 1980, this department has grown into one of China's largest and most experienced heart and heart-lung transplant centers, organized into five subspecialties: congenital heart disease, adult heart disease, aortic/major-vessel disease, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and end-stage heart-lung disease. It performs roughly 3,000 operations a year, including neonatal and infant congenital-heart surgery, and has led China in annual heart-transplant volume for several consecutive years.
- Heart transplantation (national #1 by annual volume for multiple consecutive years)
- Pediatric & neonatal congenital heart disease surgery (300+ infant cases/year, ≤5kg or ≤3 months)
- Aortic & major vascular surgery (200+ cases/year)
- Minimally invasive cardiac surgery (500+ procedures/year)
- Heart-lung transplantation
- Complex valve disease & coronary artery bypass (valve success rate 99.2%, CABG 98.9%)
Hematology
Established in 1961 by pioneering Chinese hematologists, this is one of the country's earliest dedicated hematology departments and a Ministry-of-Education national key discipline. It specializes in hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, thrombosis and hemostasis disorders, multiple myeloma, leukemia and lymphoma, and serves as a referral center for central and southwestern China.
- Allogeneic & autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Acute & chronic leukemia
- Multiple myeloma
- Lymphoma
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
- Thrombosis & hemostasis disorders
Orthopedics
Established in the 1950s and reorganized as a semi-independent 'Orthopedics Hospital' within Union Hospital in 2015, this department has topped Fudan University's national specialty-reputation ranking for orthopedics for 13 consecutive years. It runs 15 inpatient wards across the hospital's campuses with seven mature subspecialties -- spine, joint, trauma, oncology, pediatric, sports medicine and foot & ankle -- and treats patients referred from across China.
- Spine surgery
- Joint replacement (hip & knee)
- Trauma & complex fracture care
- Orthopedic oncology
- Pediatric orthopedics
- Sports medicine
- Foot & ankle surgery
If you arrange it yourself
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Appointment required at least 24 hours in advance; hours Mon-Fri 8:00-12:00 and 14:30-17:30
Appointment phone: 027-85726646; 24-hour emergency mobile: 18302702030
Covers about 40 clinical specialties with English-speaking physicians (many with overseas training) and bilingual triage nurses
Bed count note: approximately 5,000 beds is a combined figure across campuses per Haodf.com's hospital profile; the source does not date this figure or give a single-campus breakdown — treat as approximate.
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