Geriatric Cardiology Department

Features of Diagnosis and Treatment in Geriatric Cardiology I. Professional Focus The Department of Geriatric Cardiovascular Diseases was established in 1985. Under the leadership of the Shaanxi Provincial Health Bureau and the Second Affiliated Hospital, it focuses on treating various cardiovascular diseases and comorbidities in middle-aged and older adults. It specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, arrhythmias, valvular heart disease, myocardial diseases, pericardial diseases, infective endocarditis, and others. II. Advanced Equipment for Accurate Diagnosis The department is equipped with medical equipment valued at more than one million yuan, including Philips bedside monitors, a new electrocardiographic monitor from the US company GE, a central multiparameter ECG monitoring system, and a defibrillator from the US company HP. It carries out a number of advanced examination procedures, such as: ambulatory electrocardiography, which can capture paroxysmal arrhythmias and other conditions; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to assess blood pressure fluctuations; ambulatory blood glucose monitoring to record changes in blood glucose in real time; 12-lead electrocardiography to analyze arrhythmias and cardiac function; an external counterpulsation therapy device to improve symptoms of cardiovascular diseases; a pneumatic pump therapy device to promote blood circulation in the lower limbs; and a 6-minute walk test to assess exercise tolerance in patients with chronic heart failure. III. Strong Team and Nationally Leading Research The department has an academic echelon comprising senior, middle-aged, and young professionals, with physicians, nurses, and full-time research personnel working together. The team led by Professor Ding Mingge, the academic leader, is at the nationally leading level in basic research on cardiomyopathy and heart failure. It has published more than 60 papers on cardiovascular diseases, including 6 papers with an SCI impact factor higher than 10; 4 papers were selected as ESI global top 1% highly cited papers. It has served as chief editor or contributing editor for more than 10 medical monographs, and has successively received funding for 3 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as multiple provincial- and ministerial-level key scientific research projects. IV. Comprehensive Development with Medical Care, Education, and Research Advancing Together The department actively develops core medical, cardiac rehabilitation, research, and teaching teams, and improves various rules and regulations and emergency response plans.While providing patients with high-quality medical services, we undertake healthcare tasks for leading cadres at all levels and experts, as well as teaching tasks in geriatrics and general medicine, thereby advancing medical care, education, and research in parallel.