Cardiology

Our hospital's Department of Cardiovascular Medicine was founded in the 1950s, has undergone inheritance and development through three stages and five generations, and, under the painstaking nurturing of older-generation experts such as Mr. Dong Xiaochu, a renowned veteran TCM physician, and Professor Ruan Shiyi, a National Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has now formed a talent team with Academician Zhang Boli, a National Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as its academic leader, Professor Mao Jingyuan, a National Famous TCM Physician and Qihuang Scholar, as its discipline leader, Professor Wang Xianliang, a Young Qihuang Scholar and Tianjin Young Famous TCM Physician, as its reserve discipline leader, and young and middle-aged experts as its backbone. The discipline is currently a “top-priority” discipline in Tianjin Municipality and a key discipline and key specialty in cardiovascular medicine under the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was approved in 2008 as the National TCM Clinical Research Base for Coronary Heart Disease, was selected in 2012 for the Ministry of Education's “Innovation Team Development Plan” and received rolling support in 2016, was named an “Advanced Collective of the National Health and Family Planning System” in 2017, became the National Regional Traditional Chinese Medicine (Cardiovascular) Diagnosis and Treatment Center in 2018, led the National Clinical Collaboration Project for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Major and Difficult Diseases (Chronic Heart Failure), was selected in 2022 for the National TCM Inheritance and Innovation Team, was selected in 2023 as a High-Level Key TCM Discipline of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was approved for the establishment of the Tianjin Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Cardiovascular Diseases, was selected in 2024 as a National TCM Advantage Specialty, and was again selected for the National Clinical Collaboration Project for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Major and Difficult Diseases (Heart Failure). In the 2022 and 2023 evaluations of the academic influence of disciplines (specialties) in TCM hospitals, it ranked third nationwide in the TCM Cardiology (TCM Cardiovascular Diseases) rankings for two consecutive years.

Advanced Collective of the National Health and Family Planning System

The discipline currently has 120 medical and nursing staff members, including 53 physicians and researchers, among them 1 Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 National Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2 National Famous TCM Physicians, 2 Qihuang Scholars, 2 Young Qihuang Scholars, 1 national-level candidate in the “Hundreds-Thousands-Ten Thousands Talent Project,” 4 experts receiving special government allowances from the State Council, 4 National Experts in the Inheritance of Famous Veteran TCM Physicians, 1 National Outstanding TCM Clinical Talent, 1 Tianjin Haihe Medical Scholar, 4 Tianjin Famous TCM Physicians, 1 Tianjin Young Famous TCM Physician, 2 Tianjin Jinmen Medical Talents, and 2 Tianjin Young Medical Rising Stars. There are 8 doctoral supervisors and 18 master's supervisors.

The discipline is a construction unit for the China Chest Pain Center, the Heart Failure Disease-Specific Center, the Hypertension Target-Attainment Center, and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, consists of a specialty outpatient clinic, general wards, a cardiac intensive care unit (CCU), a cardiac intervention center, a cardiovascular function research laboratory, a cardiac rehabilitation center, and a laboratory for the cardiovascular effects of traditional Chinese medicines, among others, and currently has 171 beds in operation, an annual outpatient volume of more than 140,000 visits (person-times), and more than 5,000 discharge events (person-times). The discipline is characterized by TCM and integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment, with coronary heart disease (chest impediment and heart pain), heart failure (HF), hypertension (vertigo), and arrhythmia (palpitations) as its key advantageous conditions, specializes in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of various arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation, atrial premature beats, ventricular premature beats, tachycardia, bradycardia, etc.), hyperlipidemia, viral myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, microvascular angina, primary hypotension, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and other common cardiovascular diseases, and has extensive clinical experience in the integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment of acute and critical conditions such as refractory heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, malignant arrhythmias, and pulmonary embolism. It also actively carries out integrated Chinese and Western medicine cardiac rehabilitation, striving to build a distinctive TCM service system integrating prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.

The discipline keeps abreast of the latest advances in modern diagnostic and treatment technologies, comprehensively carries out interventional treatment for complex coronary lesions and applies intravascular coronary imaging technologies, including coronary intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), drug-coated balloons, cutting balloons, rotational atherectomy of coronary plaques, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, percutaneous coronary stent implantation, etc., and routinely carries out modern arrhythmia treatment procedures such as radiofrequency ablation, left atrial appendage occlusion, and percutaneous permanent pacemaker implantation, while also carrying out new interventional techniques such as transcatheter patent foramen ovale closure and CRT treatment for heart failure. It has significant distinctive advantages in the TCM diagnosis and treatment of common cardiovascular diseases, has developed a series of in-house preparations, including Huoxue Baoxin Pills, Guanxinning Pills, Xinshuning Tablets, Jiangzhi Ruanmai Tablets (Nos. I, II, III, and IV), Xinshengmai San Tablets, Maianning Mixture, Nianzhi Drink, and Bushen Kangshuai Tablets, among others, and widely uses acupuncture, warming moxibustion, cupping, Chinese herbal foot baths, auricular-point seed embedding, and other distinctive TCM treatments in clinical practice, providing patients with cardiovascular diseases with high-quality integrated Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment services.

Interventional Catheterization Room

Cardiac Rehabilitation Center

In-Hospital Preparations