Services
The Division of Cardiology is in charge of the diagnosis and the treatment of cardiovascular-related disorders of the patients. Both invasive and noninvasive methods are applied. Noninvasive procedures include resting ECG, Holter recording, ambulatory blood pressure recording, treadmill exercise testing, echocardiography (M-mode, 2-D, Doppler, transesophageal, integrated backscattered, dobutamine stress, 3-D, etc.). Invasive modalities include diagnostic cardiac catheterization, electrophysiological study, radiofrequency ablation for arrhythmias, pacemaker and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) implantation, transluminal coronary intervention and device closure for congenital intra- or extra-cardiac defects, and balloon valvuloplasty.
Education
The weekly academic activities include special lectures, echocardiography conference, emergency medicine conference, invasive cardiology conference, electrophysiology conference, morbidity-mortality conference, Coronary Care Unit conference, and cardiology-cardiovascular surgery combined conference. There are regular teaching ward rounds and morning meetings in the cardiology wards. Cardiology fellows are assigned to different areas of cardiology for a full course of training.
Research
Researches in the Division of Cardiology include clinical and basic researches. The fields in lipid disorders, atherosclerosis, arrhythmias, cellular electrophysiology, hypertension and invasive cardiology are all with good achievement. We also encourage the cardiology fellows to participate in cardiovascular researches.