Hearing Yang Ping say there was an eighty percent chance of success, Mai Jifu was so moved that he nearly cried. He had visited several major hospitals, where doctors didn't dare to perform such surgery, saying they had never done it.
Even Professor Chen from Fuwai didn't have a good solution, but now the child really couldn't hold on any longer; radical surgery was necessary.
Professor Chen sought out his mentor, Academician Wang, who specialized in pediatric congenital heart defects. After calling a consultation with everyone, Academician Wang felt that the surgery must be performed, but the risk was very high. All the structures of the heart needed to be reconstructed during the surgery, and it was possible that the patient might not survive the operating table. The success rate of the surgery was at most sixty percent, and it could take over twenty hours.
