The Division of Cardiology provides medical students, residents, and fellows with the opportunity to acquire comprehensive clinical training and to carry out both basic and clinical cardiovascular research. Emphasis is placed on new ideas and approaches to experimental and clinical problems, particularly those involving prevention, advanced technology, and acute care.

Division facilities include five advanced cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories; a center for statistical programs and core angiographic image processing; an angiographic animal laboratory; three animal physiology laboratories; extensive metabolic, biochemistry, and molecular biology research laboratories; electronic and mechanical shops; a 17-bed coronary-care unit at Memorial Hermann Hospital; a 56-bed intermediate unit and dedicated cardiovascular ward service; a noninvasive diagnostic imaging laboratory at Memorial Hermann Hospital; a Center for Cardiovascular Medicine, with outpatient echo, nuclear, and peripheral vascular labs; and a major positron imaging facility, that features a cyclotron, positron cameras, and laboratories. The faculty practice and teach clinical diagnosis and management of problems such as heart failure, coronary heart disease, arrhythmias, valvular disease, cardiogenic shock, congenital cardiac disease in the adult, and peripheral vascular disease. Some special procedures such as the use of the Swan Ganz catheters and Holter monitoring are introduced. An important part of training is integrating technology with the art of general medicine and the role of subspecialty consultation for such procedures as cardiac catheterization, exercise testing, radionuclide LV function studies, and cardiac surgery, and understanding their risks, costs, and benefits.

The division is staffed with M.D.’s and/or Ph.D.’s whose interests cover the full range of clinical and research cardiology, including catheterization, electrophysiology, critical care, noninvasive care and monitoring, nuclear cardiology, bedside and outpatient care, radiochemistry and cardiovascular physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and clinical epidemiology.

Our interventional cardiologists treat all aspects of coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease and valvular heart disease. They have extensive experience in percutaneous ASD and PFO closure, carotid stenting, and endovascular AAA repair.

Our electrophysiologists perform all aspects of interventional electrophysiology, including accessory pathway ablation, pulmonary vein isolation for AFIB, AICD, pacer, and resynchronization pacer implants.

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