Cardiology

The Department of Cardiology of Zhejiang Hospital is a national key clinical specialty and a specialty of a national drug clinical trial institution. It undertakes the major responsibility of developing the Key Laboratory for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Circulatory System Diseases through Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine across Zhejiang Province, as well as the Zhejiang Provincial Multidisciplinary Cross-Innovation Team for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. The department is equipped with 100 beds, a coronary care unit (CCU), and 4 catheterization laboratories. It has led or participated in dozens of international and domestic multicenter clinical studies and has contributed to the development of more than 10 national guidelines, including the 2024 Chinese Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Failure. In the treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation of coronary artery disease, heart failure, arrhythmias, structural heart disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, and cardiovascular metabolic diseases, it is at a leading level within the province and an advanced level nationally. The department routinely performs emergency intervention for acute myocardial infarction, complex coronary intervention, ablation for atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias, implantation of advanced pacemakers and devices, including CRT-D, ICD, left bundle branch pacing systems, and leadless pacemakers, congenital heart defect closure, left atrial appendage closure, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), percutaneous interventional ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, and renal sympathetic denervation ablation. It is also a training base for interventional diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, cardiac pacing, and arrhythmias, as well as a national standardized residency training base. Close multidisciplinary team (MDT) collaborations have been established with the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Medical Imaging, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, Nutrition, and Pharmacy.