Feng You-xian | |
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冯友贤 | |
Born | China |
Known for | Invention of silk vascular prosthesis Vascular surgery |
Relatives | (granddaughter) Chennie Huang 黄承妮 |
Feng You-xian (Chinese: 冯友贤) was a famous vascular surgeon, he pioneered and headed the department of vascular surgery in Shanghai First Medical College of Zhongshan Hospital, the most prestigious teaching hospital in the People's Republic of China.[1][2][3][4]
In the 1950s, Dr Feng developed the first silk vascular prosthesis in Shanghai. In 1957, he performed using the silk vascular prosthesis for a lower limb aneurysm operation on a patient. It was reported to be a landmark success in the history of medicine since the establishment of the PRC in 1949.
He wrote the first textbook on the subject of vascular surgery published in 1980 by Shanghai Kexue Jishu Chubanshe 上海科学技术出版社.[5]
Throughout the 1980s, he took up professorships in the United States upon invitation. Among the many, including University of Massachusetts Medical School, Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, etc.. He also guest lectured in Kuwait in the late 1980s.