The
cardiovascular research is going on within the Complex Cardiovascular Centre of
the First Medical Faculty and General University Hospital in Prague. The clinical
and pre-clinical research projects are running in parallel with laboratory and
animal model research in the Cardiac Physiology Experimental Lab and Laboratory
of Functional Diagnostics at by the Department of Physiology. Important part of
the cardiovascular program is represented by basic and translational research
performed in the Developmental Cardiology Group at the Department of Anatomy.
Main areas of research include following fields:
- Coronary heart disease imaging and treatment
- Cardiomyopathies and myocarditis
- Pulmonary hypertensionPeripheral vascular diseasesHeart failure and cardiac arrest programArterial hypertension
- Preventive cardiology
Research teams from following departments of the First Faculty of Medicine participate in the project:
- II.interní klinika | 2nd Department of Internal Cardiovascular Medicine
- Anatomický ústav | Institute of Anatomy
- Fyziologický ústav | Institute of Physiology
Project coordinator: prof. MUDr. Aleš Linhart, DrSc.
