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-Location: 5th Floor, No.3  Building

-38 Staff

Introduction of the department of cardiology

The department of cardiology was established in 1973. It consists of two sites separately located in Tianhe and Luogang hospitals. There are 5 Professors, 11 Associate Professors, 8 medical doctors and 14 medical masters. Our department has more than ten thousands outpatient visits per year and almost 100 inpatient beds. We provide undergraduate, master, Ph.D and advanced study program for students. Our “National Continuing Education Program” and “Evidence-based Medicine Learning Class” has admitted students from overall the country and received great success in recent years. The department used to undertake or participate over 20 research projects funded by National 973 Project, Natural Science Foundation of China, Science and Technology Agency of Guangdong province, and 211 Project Construction, etc. More than 200 papers have published on domestic and international journals.

Diagnosis and Treatment

Percutaneous heart and aortic angiography,

Intravascular ultrasound,

Floating catheter monitoring hemodynamics,

Emergency treatment or selective operation of PTCA and stent implantation,

Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty,

Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus,

Radiofrequency catheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular arrhythmias and atrial arrhythmias,

Temporary or permanent pacemaker implantation,

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator,

Cardiac resynchronization therapy or/and with implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Percutaneous left atrial appendage transcathter occlusion

Thrombolysis of acute myocardial infarction,

Intra-aortic balloon pump