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.), nuclear cardiac imaging (Th201 myocardial perfusion imaging, Tc99m myocardial imaging, etc.) and positron emission tomography. Invasive modalities include diagnostic cardiac catheterization, electrophysiological study, radiofrequency ablation for arrhythmias, pacemaker 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. There is a case discussion session on Wednesday leaded by Professor Lee. 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. The Chin-Shan Cardiovascular Cohort Study is the most important epidemiological study in Taiwan. We also encourage the cardiology fellows to participate in cardiovascular researches.