The so-called spinal cord injury refers to acute traumatic injury invade spinal cord and nerves, cause disorders of movement, sensation, and bowel function.

After trauma, peripheral nervous system transmit the signal to the limbs, the torso and other parts of the body, its nerve cell or neuron can repair itself, but the central nervous system cannot regenerate.

The treatment of spinal cord injury, utilizing the immune regulation and cell differentiation abilities of mesenchymal stem cells to protect neurons from apoptosis, and induce the proliferation of nerve cells, thus enabling the opportunity to restore the broken nerve conduction

Malignant brain tumors, due to tumor cells will infiltrate surrounding brain tissue, the boundary with normal brain tissue is blurred, therefore, it is not easy to remove completely after surgery. Unless the brain tumor is quite malignant or may spread with the cerebrospinal fluid, generally, only partial irradiation is required.

Changhong Biological Technology Company with Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital sign a letter of intent for cooperation, and commissioned Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital to execute “The Phase I/IIa Human Clinical Trial of Targeted New Drug Cerebraca® Wafer Combined with Temozolomide (TMZ) for Treatment of Malignant Brain Tumors”, the operation went smoothly and successfully, the patient was transferred out of the intensive care unit two days after the operation, he was discharged from hospital a week later.

Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital initial cooperation with Sangu, with the experience of Tzu Chi Bone Marrow Stem Cell Center and the core laboratory of bone marrow transplantation, assist in the collection of immune cells, and will develop toward the establishment of Taiwan’s immune cell database.

Bone marrow stem cell transplantation is through intravenous injection of normal bone marrow cells to leukemia or the treatment of patients with blood diseases such as aplastic anemia.
Immune cell therapy refers to the treatment of diseases by inducing, enhancing or suppressing immune response.
Oncolytic virus treatment is a technology that uses viruses to selectively destroy cancer cells, it can be used to fight cancer, gene therapy, or immunotherapy, etc.

Minimally Invasive Surgery is a kind of surgery that allows surgeons to perform operations without causing huge wounds to patients, mainly through endoscopes and various imaging techniques.
Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery not only can reduce wound infection, reduce bleeding, and reduce pain, and it can reduce the damage of surrounding tissues, and the prognosis of patients is good.
Coronary heart catheter stent is a stent placed in the coronary artery, can provide blood to the heart, the purpose of the stent is to keep the artery open. For severely calcified blood vessels, through the coronary artery high-speed drill bit grinding technique, using a diamond grinding head at a high speed of about 150,000 to 180,000 revolutions per minute, rub away the hardest part of the blood vessel wall, at the same time avoid soft blood vessel walls. When the blood vessel is hardened and blocked by the lesion, then use a balloon to prop it up into the stent, the success rate of treatment is more than 95%.

Looking at Taiwan’s advanced medical technology and mature Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine projects, integration has the advantage of developing a combination of Chinese and Western medicine.
Deputy Director of Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital said, in the past two years, following the integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine outpatient clinic, the emergency integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine medical treatment, and the combined traditional Chinese and western medicine ward, until today’s Chinese medicine ward was opened, it is the hope that patients can receive appropriate medical treatment in a timely manner. Now people can evaluate through Chinese medicine clinics, the outpatient Chinese physician recommends whether to be admitted to hospital, after hospitalization, western doctors in related departments will cooperate to make treatment plans for the patients.

Whether it is acute or chronic disease, both Chinese and Western medicine can be used in combination therapy, with a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, while achieving curative effect, it also reduces the possible side effects of traditional treatments. Through the cooperation between Tzu Chi Hospital and the National Institute of Chinese Medicine, build a medical platform, exchange the research results of both parties, accelerate the accumulation of cases, integrate the advantages of Chinese and Western medicine, help more patients in need get back to health.

To improve the shortcomings of the current minimally invasive surgery, in pursuit of a better prognosis of surgery, one is to take out the specimen after the operation, minimally invasive surgery recovers quickly because of the small wound, But it also limits the space for taking out the specimen, in the past, the use of a tumor crusher in the abdominal cavity has spread doubts about potential malignant uterine sarcoma, or cause complications such as parasitic fibroids, endometriosis, peritonitis, and organ injury.

Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital Minimally Invasive Surgery Team combining the bagging method and the advantages of manual cutting, use tissue bags to develop “Contained Manual Morcellation (CMM)”, after bagging the specimen in the abdominal cavity, pull out the mouth of the bag through the retractor wound, take out the specimen by manual cutting, compared with the traditional laparoscopic tumor shattering machine, CMM keeps all fragments and tissue fluid of the specimen in the bag, it can prevent specimen fragments from being left in the abdominal cavity, cause problems such as the spread of potential cancer cells or iatrogenic parasitic fibroids, therefore, it is safer for patients.

Reproductive Medicine is a branch of medicine, carry out the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of fertility-related diseases, its purpose is to maintain people’s reproductive health, let people give birth to children at the stage they choose.
The scope of reproductive medicine including sex education, puberty, family planning, birth control, infertility, reproductive system diseases (including sexually transmitted diseases) and sexual dysfunction. For women, reproductive medicine also includes menstruation, ovulation, pregnancy and menopause, and other gynecological diseases that can affect fertility.

Knee chondrocyte layer technique treat damaged parts of cartilage defects, first is the collection of cartilage tissue and the cultivation of chondrocyte layers, next is the repair of damaged cartilage tissue, if necessary, combined with corrective surgery.
Knee cartilage lamellar technique can induce autologous chondrocytes to regenerate, recover damaged articular cartilage tissue without having to bear the side effects that may arise from traditional joint replacement, it is more important to maintain the integrity of the original knees and bones to treat joint injuries, compared with traditional medical technology, it can significantly improve the quality of life.

The core of regenerative medicine is tissue engineering, its three cores include: Materials (nutrition, scaffold, matrix), cells and growth factors (cytokines, hormones, messages), can promote the regeneration of autologous tissues.
Regenerative Medicine is the production of functional and vital body organs and tissues, used to repair or replace in the body, unhealthy organs and tissues caused by aging, sickness, and damage. Or use other ways to stimulate the regeneration of tissues or organs in the body. Usually workers in this field, will be in the laboratory, after cultivating the tissues or organs in the body, use a safe way of transplantation, transplant into the patient’s body. Therefore, the purpose of regenerative medicine is to solve the problem of insufficient organ donors.
Combining the joint development of production, research, and medicine, Not only allows medical and researchers to conduct research and development with stable quality stem cells, and allowing patients to enjoy the reasonable costs brought about by large-scale production is a major breakthrough in regenerative medicine.

The bladder is located in the pelvic cavity in the lower abdomen, is an organ that stores urine, the urine flowing down from the kidneys is connected to it, like a reservoir, reaching a critical point causes the brain to issue commands to urinate.

Common diseases in urology are urinary tract infection, cystitis, urinary incontinence, prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, urinary retention, and the urine protein in the kidneys, kidney stones, and severe renal failure will occur. Different bladder diseases also have different examination and diagnosis methods.

Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital Urology Department, there are general urology, women’s urology, urology oncology, endoscopy urology, adult urology, pediatric urology, etc. Examples include urinary incontinence, urinary disorders, urinary stones or infections, enlarged prostate, hernias, tumors, male infertility, kidney transplantation, etc., and advanced laparoscopic surgery, Da Vinci surgery, etc., Comprehensive care for the health of the urinary system of the folks.

Breast cancer is the cancer with the highest incidence in women, the number of newly diagnosed people has been rising every year, and the age of cancer is getting younger.
Breast lumps are different bumps on the breast and other breast tissues around it. The Breast Medicine Center has introduced a variety of cutting-edge imaging examination equipment, provide the best screening and diagnosis with precision medicine, and integrate medical teams across fields to provide high-quality medical quality, reduce the discomfort of the examination, increase the rate of consultation, and then early diagnosis and treatment.
Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital Breast Medicine Center combines breast surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, medical oncology, radiation oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, pathology, psychosomatic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, rehabilitation and nutrition teams, integrated as a breast medical team, provide medical care for people in need.

Heavy particle cancer treatment is an advanced radiotherapy, unlike traditional radiotherapy that uses high-energy X-rays or electron beams, free carbon atoms into carbon ions, use a synchrotron to accelerate particles to 70% of the speed of light, then irradiate the cancer focus, to carry out cancer treatment methods.

Traditional radiotherapy in the past, while irradiating malignant tumors, it will also cause damage to the surrounding normal tissues, lead to short-term or even permanent treatment sequelae.
With the efforts of physicists, discovered the uniqueness of heavy particle beams, the energy can be fully released only at a certain depth of treatment, can accurately destroy malignant tumors, but it greatly reduces the damage to the surrounding normal tissues, the side effects of traditional radiotherapy have almost disappeared.