At the end of July, under the joint direction of Dr. Cheng and Dr. Cheng Kuok-kei, Director of Cardiovascular Surgery at Veterans General Hospital, an artificial heart was successfully placed into a pig, opening up a new direction in coronary medicine in the R.O.C.
七月底，在鄭國材與榮總心臟外科主任鄭國琪共同主持下，一枚人工心臟成功地植入一頭公豬體內，為國內的心臟醫療開啟了另一條新路。