Founded in 1958, Cardiovascular Medicine Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University is one of the disciplines of the largest scale and abundant strength integrating medical treatment, scientific research, teaching and prevention and healthcare in the Northwest China. It is a National Clinical Key Specialty Training Unit, National Drug Clinical Trial Institute Professional Base, National Health and Family Planning Commission Cardiovascular Disease Intervention Diagnosis and Treatment Training Base, National-level Chest Pain Center Demonstration Center, the first batch of Peripheral Blood Vessel Intervention Training Base of National Health and Family Planning Commission, National Level Standardized Training Base of Residents, Doctoral Degree Granting Unit, Sole Key Discipline of Shaanxi Province Cardiovascular Specialty, Shaanxi Province Cardiovascular Disease Quality Control Center and Shaanxi Province Cardiovascular Disease Clinical Medical Research Center. The specialty has attached institutions such as Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Institute of Molecular Cardiology and Institute of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, and it is a key lab of the Ministry of Education as well as key lab of Molecular Cardiology in Shaanxi Province. The clinic is equipped with 8 inpatient areas and 1 CCU, and 267 sickbeds. At present, it has 1 person of National Outstanding Youth, 20 professors, 7 associate professors, 8 doctoral tutors, and 14 master tutors. Every year, there are more than 15,000 patients received and treated here, and the annual outpatient volume is nearly 140,000 person-times.
To keep synchronization with international diagnosis and treatment, in recent years, the specialty has carried out more than 40 internationally advanced diagnosis and treatment techniques, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion (PLAATO), atrial filtration cryoplasty ablation, ultrasonography in coronary artery, percutaneous transluminal coronary rotational ablation (PTCRA), FFRmeasurement, optical coherence tomography (OCT), radiofrequency ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias under the guidance of three-dimensional mapping technics and others. It is in leading place in the Northwest China as well advanced place nationwide.
The specialty has formed sub-majors such as Atherosclerosis and Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiac Failure, Hypertension, Structural Heart Disease, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Pace-making and Electrophysiology, Emergency and Severe Disease, Aged Heart Disease, etc., and there have emerged a large batch of young and promising major leaders. In recent 5 years, the department has sent more than 40 person-times young doctors to famous foreign universities for scientific research and clinical training, and it has formed a high-quality clinical and scientific research technique echelon with a combination of aged, middle-aged and young talents and with the returned overseas personnel and doctors as the backbone.
In recent 5 five years, it has won 33 national-level scientific research projects, 15 provincial and ministry-level scientific research projects, 2 first prizes and 1 first prize of Shaanxi Province Science and Technology Prize, and 14 invention patents and utility model patents. It has published more than 20 monographs, and there are 29 person-times having participated in compiling diagnosis and treatment guidelines on coronary heart disease, cardiac failure, hypertension, congenital heart disease (CHD), arrhythmia and other specialty diseases successively. And it has more than 150 papers included in Nature Med, Circulation Res, Hypertension, ATVB and other internationally famous periodicals. And it undertakes Organ-System integrated curriculum of Clinical Medicine major of national institutions of higher education as well as the chief editor’s work of disease of cardiovascular system in the 12th Five-Year project teaching materials of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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Address of Outpatient Clinic: Floor 2, Outpatient Building
Address of Inpatient Clinic: Floor 4 and 5, Inpatient Building