Clinical research
Researchers at the Institute are interested in the leading
heart diseases and more specifically in:
Acute and chronic coronary disease
improving the treatment
of people who have suffered cardiovascular trauma and diversifying
the treatment of affected arteries using stents;
Cardiac electrophysiology
developing new drugs and approaches for arrhythmia; improving
prevention as well as treatment using defibrillators, catheter
ablation, arrhythmogenic foci, and pacemakers;
Preventive and rehabilitative cardiology
understanding the importance of psychosomatic factors in heart
disease; integrating nursing care into new approaches to prevention
and rehabilitation;
Heart surgery
developing new techniques for repairing heart valves and
protecting the heart and arteries during surgery; improving heart
transplant outcomes and making heart surgery less invasive.
Heart Failure
Our heart failure and transplantation research group
investigates metabolic and endocrine disorders in heart failure and
post-heart transplant patients. We also have a major interest in
understanding the impact of pharmacological modulation on tolerance
to maximum and sub-maximum stress. A number of investigations are
under way that are attempting to understand the phenomenon of
post-heart transplant cardioreparation and the mechanisms behind
post-transplant atherosclerotic complications.
