Dr. Cheng Kuok-kei, Director of Cardiovascular Surgery at Veterans General Hospital, and the main surgeon in the second and sixth transplants, points out that "using as a standard that in the U.S. and Europe surgery is successful 100 percent of the time, that 85 percent of the patients live beyond one year and 70 percent beyond five, the performance in the R.O.C.
「以歐美換心手術成功率將近百分之百、一年存活率高達百分之八十五、五年存活率也有百分之七十的標準來看，國內的換心紀錄或許並不輝煌，但這並不代表國內醫療水準低」，榮總心臟血管外科主任、也是國內第二例及第六例換心手術主刀醫師鄭國琪指出。