[Division profile]

The team of Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, established 10 years ago, is one of the top-tier public hospitals at present, the division is the key cultivation disciplines in Shenzhen, Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen (Dudley Pennell academician team of Imperial College London, UK) and one of the key construction divisions of the youngest high-level hospital. It was selected as the national "chest pain center (awarded the ACHS Qi Global Quality Improvement Award), heart failure center (as national demonstration center, the national outstanding contribution award for assistance, teaching and quality control star (ranking the fourth in China)), cardiac rehabilitation center (a national demonstration center, humanities construction unit (totally two units in China in 2019)), and atrial fibrillation center (a national standardized atrial fibrillation demonstration center)". It is the first and youngest division of "National Double Demonstration Center for heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation" in Guangdong Province. At the same time, the division was rated as the national cardiac rehabilitation nursing training base (the first in Guangdong Province), the national drug clinical trial base, the doctoral and master training unit of the University of Hong Kong, Jinan University and the post-doctoral mobile station. The scientific research articles were selected as one of the top ten clinical studies of heart failure in 2021.

"Sanming Project of Medicine team" of cardiovascular imaging precision medicine team of Dudley Pennell, academician of Royal Brompton Hospital of Imperial College London

In 2019, the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine was officially introduced into the "Sanming Project" of the cardiovascular imaging precision medicine team of academician Dudley Pennell of Royal Brompton Hospital of Imperial College London, UK. The team is composed of experts in cardiology, imaging and biomedical engineering. The main cooperation direction is 1) the comprehensive and accurate medical evaluation of coronary heart disease, heart failure and cardiomyopathy. 2) using advanced clinical diagnosis and imaging technology to analyze etiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, quantitative analysis, risk stratification, prognosis, efficacy evaluation of drugs and surgery, follow-up and other aspects of cardiovascular diseases. 3） development and promotion of new cardiovascular magnetic resonance technology and conducted relevant translational medicine research. 4) basic research focusing on the mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases, diagnosis and treatment technology in combination with genomics and radiomics. The team established a clinical application and education base of cardiovascular magnetic resonance. At the same time, the team is also the leader of a variety of top imaging technologies in the UK, such as magnetic resonance sequence, automatic analysis and processing software, diffusion tensor imaging, four-dimensional blood flow, etc. The team has close cooperation with research and development institutions in software and hardware development, technology application and other aspects. Professor Dudley Pennell, the discipline leader of the team, former president of the international society of cardiovascular magnetic resonance and former editor in chief of the Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance, won the gold medal of the international society of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (SCMR) and the best research award of the National Institute of Cardiology and lung in the UK for his outstanding contribution in the field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance.

[service features and merits]

The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine adopts the mode of appointment for medical treatment and draws lessons from the medical management mode of UK and Hong Kong. The treatment and management mode are in line with international standards and becomes a modern division integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research and prevention. Adhering to the service concept of "patients' life safety first", patients can enjoy "one-stop" diagnosis and treatment services. Experienced, standardized and professional medical and nursing teams take good care of the patients’ health and bring "heart" new hope.

[diagnosis and treatment scope]

The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine carries out the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases (including coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, heart valve disease, pericardial disease, congenital heart disease, premature beat, etc.), difficult and rare heart diseases, and 24-hour treatment of acute myocardial infarction. The division is good at interventional treatment of high-risk and severe patients such as complex multivessel lesions, calcification lesions, bifurcation lesions and left main artery lesions, moreover, the medical team in the division of Cardiology can treat patients with various extremely critical vascular diseases with the support of ECMO, IABP and CRRT.

In addition, the division carried out interventional therapy for structural heart diseases such as patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), left atrial appendage occlusion, minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), and carried out single and double chamber pacemaker implantation, three chamber pacemaker (ICD, CRTD) and leadless pacemaker implantation for patients with heart failure and arrhythmia. At the same time, the professional cardiac rehabilitation team can provide accurate cardiac assessment and comprehensive rehabilitation treatment for patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure and after heart transplantation.

Examination: the division provides examinations including cardiac ultrasound, Holter, exercise treadmill test, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, arteriosclerosis monitoring, cardiac magnetic resonance, cardiopulmonary exercise test ,stress cardiac magnetic resonance, stress myocardial perfusion radionuclide imaging, stress cardiac ultrasound, stress contrast echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, coronary CTA, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), optical coherence tomography (OCT), Coronary flow reserve fraction (FFR, CAFFR), etc.

[introduction to subspecialty]

Cardiology Clinic

[Service range] 1. Hyperlipidemia , coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, hypertension, hypotension, heart failure, myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy (dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restricted cardiomyopathy), myocarditis, myocardial infarction, rheumatic heart valve disease (rheumatic heart), arrhythmia, adult congenital heart disease, pulmonary embolism, cardiovascular embolism, atherosclerosis, stenosis, rare diseases and other cardiovascular diseases.

[Common operation / examination] electrocardiogram (ECG) - Conducted in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine for emergency / in the ECG room on the 3rd floor of the outpatient department for non-emergency

Cardiology clinic examination: Holter, arteriosclerosis monitor, treadmill exercise test, cardiac ultrasound, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), echocardiography, 24h ECG

Examination in the outpatient department of Endocrinology: sensory threshold detection

Operations: coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary stent implantation, electrophysiological radiofrequency ablation, permanent pacemaker implantation, left atrial appendage occlusion, congenital heart disease occlusion, mitral balloon dilatation, etc.

[Outpatient time] Monday to Sunday, 8:30-12:00 a.m. and 14:00-17:30 p.m.

Coronary Artery Disease Clinic

[Service range] patients with previously diagnosed coronary heart disease or suspected coronary heart disease with symptoms including chest tightness and chest pain.

[Common operations / examinations] coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary stenting (PCI), percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PTCA), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), optical coherence tomography (OCT), coronary flow reserve (FFR), IABP, exercise treadmill, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac radionuclide imaging, etc.

[Outpatient time] 14:00-17:30 pm on Tuesday; 14:00-17:30 pm on Friday.

Heart Failure Clinic

[Service range] comprehensive evaluation, optimal treatment, long term follow-up and out of hospital management of heart failure caused by various types of cardiomyopathy (including dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, right ventricular cardiomyopathy, special types of cardiomyopathy such as amyloidosis, Fabry's disease, etc.), myocarditis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy related to tumor treatment, arrhythmia cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, etc.It also includes the etiological examination of unexplained heart failure and the treatment of refractory heart failure.

[Common surgery / examination] For diagnosis, the clinic carries out accurate examination methods such as cardiac MRI, right cardiac catheterization, myocardial biopsy and gene detection to improve the diagnostic rate of the cause of heart failure. In addition to the standardized drug optimization treatment of heart failure, new treatment technologies such as cardiac resynchronization therapy implantation (CRT), implantable internal defibrillation cardioverter (ICD), left bundle branch pacing and his bundle pacing are also carried out. Rehabilitation treatment and family monitoring of patients with heart failure are also carried out.

[Outpatient time] 14:00-17:30 pm on Monday; 14:00-17:30 pm on Wednesday

Refractory Hypertension Clinic

[Service range] Complicated and difficult hypertension, such as refractory hypertension, secondary hypertension, hypertension with multiple complications, hypertensive emergency, etc. Patients diagnosed with hypertension, but still have uncontrolled blood pressure after taking medicine or treatment can make an appointment.

[Common surgery / examination] hypertension follow-up management, etiological examination, target organ damage examination, precision drug treatment, rehabilitation treatment, etc. Besides, the clinic also cooperates with the Division of Interventional Radiology to conduct peripheral vascular interventional therapy related to hypertension such as renal artery stents.

[Outpatient time] Wednesday 8:30-12:00, 14:00-17:30

Valvular Heart Disease Clinic

[Service range] heart valve disease, mitral stenosis, mitral insufficiency (regurgitation), aortic insufficiency (regurgitation), aortic stenosis, tricuspid insufficiency (regurgitation)

[Common surgery / examination] The clinic evaluates the disease progression through medical history, symptoms, physical examination, ultrasound, CT, cardiac magnetic resonance and blood test, and formulate the best medication scheme according to the condition. Some aortic valve diseases can also be treated by minimally invasive catheter intervention. Doctors will formulate the best diagnosis and treatment scheme for patients and provide better and more professional services for individual patients.

[Outpatient time] 8:30-12:00 am on Monday

Rare Heart Disease Clinic

[Service range] (1) ion channel diseases, including Brugada syndrome, long QT interval syndrome, short QT interval syndrome, catechol induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), etc. (2) Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (3) Idiopathic cardiomyopathy, such as restrictive cardiomyopathy, myocardial amyloidosis, iron overload cardiomyopathy, mitochondrial cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, incomplete myocardial densification, etc. (4) Fabry's disease. (5) Coronary artery dilation disease

[common surgery / examination] The clinic carries out cardiac MRI, myocardial biopsy, right cardiac catheter, gene testing and other examination methods to provide accurate diagnosis and condition evaluation. Besides, the clinic makes accurate diagnosis and treatment plans according to the etiology and condition of patients, including targeted drug therapy.

[outpatient time] 14:00-17:30 pm on Thursday

Cardiac Rehabilitaition Clinic

[Service range] The clinic makes suggestions on exercise prescription for people in sub-healthy status; Patients who have been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease in the past, and now the disease is basically stable and have the willingness of cardiac rehabilitation exercise. The clinic comprehensively carries out the first, second and third stage cardiac rehabilitation in hospital and family cardiac rehabilitation treatment, which can provide professional cardiac condition evaluation and comprehensive rehabilitation treatment for coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, post cardiac surgery, sub-health people, etc.

[common operation / examination] cardiopulmonary exercise examination.

[outpatient time] 8:30-12:00 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; 14:00-17:30 on Wednesday and Friday

Pulmonary hypertension Clinic

[Service range] primary and secondary pulmonary hypertension

[common operation / examination] right cardiac catheterization

[outpatient time] 14:00-17:30 pm on Thursday

Inpatient Ward

The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine has an independent ward with 72 beds. The wards are routinely inspected by professors from Queen Mary Hospital of Hong Kong and senior doctors in the mainland to provide professional guidance for critical ill and complicated patients. The scope of diagnosis and treatment of diseases in cardiology covers common diseases, critical and severe diseases and various complicated cardiovascular diseases in cardiology. A large number of patients with cardiovascular diseases have been well diagnosed and treated in our division. Our purpose is to reduce the waste of medical resources and the burden of patients.

Cardiac catheterization room

The cardiac catheterization room was established in July 2013. The intervention team is composed of professors from Queen Mary Hospital of Hong Kong and domestic experienced doctors and full-time nurses carry out cardiac intervention diagnosis and treatment. The Division of Cardiovascular Medicine is equipped with a special cardiac catheterization room, with one PilliP double arm DSA machine, two sets of electrophysiological multichannel instruments, stimulator and radiofrequency ablation instrument, and one set of the three-dimensional electrophysiological mapping system and cold saline perfusion ablation instrument (Carto3). Interventional diagnosis and treatment of the following heart diseases have been successfully carried out: the treatment of acute myocardial infarction has been carried out 24 hours a day. The advanced intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), optical coherence tomography (OCT), coronary flow reserve fraction (FFR, CaFFR) and other examinations have been used to accurately evaluate and treat coronary surgery. With the support of ECMO, IABP and CRRT, patients with various extremely critical vascular diseases can be treated for a large number of complex multi vessel diseases, calcified diseases Interventional therapy should be carried out in patients with high critical coronary heart disease such as bifurcation lesions and left main trunk. The cardiac catheterization room carries out congenital cardiac interventional therapy such as patent foramen ovale, atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, PDA, one-stop operation of atrial fibrillation radiofrequency ablation and left atrial appendage occlusion, implantation of single and double chamber pacemaker, implantation of three chamber pacemaker (ICD, CRTD), implantation of leadless pacemaker, minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (TAVR), etc.

Cardiac rehabilitation area

In December 2016, it was officially opened for outpatient and inpatient cardiac rehabilitation patients. With the support of Queen Mary Hospital of Hong Kong, cardiac rehabilitation, which integrates clinical, treatment, scientific research and teaching of cardiovascular diseases, is composed of professional cardiologists and full-time nurses, including evaluation area, training area and health education area. The cardiac rehabilitation area provides one-stop services of outpatient, inpatient, catheter room, intensive care and cardiac rehabilitation for citizens. It is the national heart rehabilitation demonstration center, the training base for heart rehabilitation talents and the training base for cardiorespiratory rehabilitation nursing specialty. There are two cooperative hospitals. At present, various stages of rehabilitation treatments in an all-round way have been carried out. Rehabilitation management was carried out for patients in cardiology and surgery, such as patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure, PCI and other interventional patients, as well as patients with coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve disease and aortic dissection in cardiac surgery. Besides, the rehabilitation guidance are divided into bedside eras rehabilitation, rehabilitation center rehabilitation and family rehabilitation guidance. The contents of rehabilitation include: drug, exercise, nutrition, psychology, smoking cessation, sleep and pain management.

Service team

Division Director:Prof. Kai Hang, Yiu

Under the leadership of the Department Director, Professor Hung-Fat TSE and Professor Kai Hang, Yiu of Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital , the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine has 22 excellent doctors from all over the country, including 2 consultant doctors in Hong Kong, 3 consultant doctors in the mainland, 3 deputy consultant doctors, 6 senior doctors, 8 resident doctors, 2 medical technicians and 4 scientific researchers. The Department has a reasonable talent structure and is in its prime of life. It is a collection of heart disease diagnosis, treatment, medical, scientific research, teaching and medical team integrating rehabilitation provides patients with high-quality medical services full of humanistic care.

Medical Advice

Guidelines for Medical Treatment

See a doctor: make an appointment (telephone, on-site reservation office on the first or second floor, wechat, etc.) - register (pay) - wait (the display screen is called queue number) - see a doctor (according to the consulting room prompted by the display screen).

Examination: check list (paid) - make an appointment (front desk nurse station) - register (take the reserved check list to the front desk nurse station) - wait (call the name according to the appointment time) - results (the report will be printed after the ABPM is removed; after 10-15 minutes of cardiac ultrasound and exercise tablet report, the result of Holter will be prompted by SMS 3-5 working days later).

Report: put on the outpatient medical record and all examination reports and submit them to the front desk nurse or medical guide, who will ask the doctor to see the report and relay the doctor's suggestions. If the results are normal and there is no physical discomfort, there is no need to see a doctor again; If the results are normal and still feel unwell, please ask the doctor to continue to see the specialty or other divisions, and make a new appointment for registration; Those who report abnormal results should make a new appointment for registration and follow-up.

Warm tips on relevant examinations in cardiology clinic

Due to the limited examination equipment, in order to improve the utilization rate of the equipment and avoid the delay of the latter patient's examination, patients who have ambulatory blood pressure, ambulatory electrocardiogram and exercise tablet examination, please be sure to bring the original examination application form to the hospital before the appointment period. The specific time is as follows: