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Cardiovascular Medicine Lab
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A cardiovascular medicine department that explores heart and blood vessel diseases through both clinical care and research.
AboutAbout the lab
Training physicians with a research mind
The Cardiovascular Medicine Lab consists of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University and the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Kyushu University Hospital, and engages in both clinical care and research.
The diseases it treats are wide-ranging, including heart failure, arrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, valvular heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, and congenital heart disease.
Young doctors who wish to pursue research are encouraged to earn a doctorate at graduate school, and study abroad is also actively encouraged.
Prof. Abe says he wants to develop warm, humane Physician Scientists who combine advanced medical knowledge and skills with a research mind.
Key terms
- CTEPH
- Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. A disease in which blood clots that remain undissolved in the lungs cause pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure
- Registry
- A system that collects and registers cases from institutions nationwide. Used to examine the efficacy and safety of treatments
- Direct oral anticoagulants
- Also called DOACs. Oral drugs used in anticoagulation therapy to prevent blood clots from forming or growing
NewsLab news
A physician in the lab received the YIA Excellence Award and the Excellent Poster Award at the Basic Research Forum of the Japan Section of the International Society for Heart Research
The main paper of the QHEART-R study was published in Circulation Journal
A paper on NT-proBNP levels and mortality risk in the Hisayama Study was published in Circulation Journal
A graduate student received an Excellence Award at the Medical Staff YIA of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese College of Cardiology
A paper on empagliflozin and pulmonary vascular remodeling was published in Journal of the American Heart Association
ResearchResearch themes
Research at the Cardiovascular Medicine Lab is divided into clinical research and basic research groups. The clinical research groups cover heart failure, ischemic heart disease, arrhythmia, pulmonary hypertension and venous thrombosis, structural heart disease, congenital heart disease, hypertension and circulatory regulation, artificial intelligence (AI), and diagnostic imaging, while the basic research groups cover heart failure, vascular research, pulmonary hypertension, and hypertension and circulatory regulation.
*Illustrative imageBasic research on pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure
Right heart failure associated with pulmonary hypertension has a poor prognosis, and elucidating its pathophysiology and developing new treatments are important challenges. Together with graduate students, the lab investigates in basic research the progression of obstructive lesions in pulmonary arterial hypertension and the mechanisms that worsen right heart failure.
*Illustrative imageClinical research on chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
For CTEPH, in which blood clots in the lungs cause pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure, the lab built and reported a nationwide registry. It also conducted a multicenter, investigator-initiated clinical trial examining the efficacy and safety of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs).
MembersFaculty
The members of the Cardiovascular Medicine Lab consist of faculty, staff physicians, and researchers, part-time staff, affiliated departments, and graduate students and research students.
- ProfessorKotaro Abe
- Associate ProfessorTetsuya Matoba
- Assistant ProfessorKeiji Oi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Echocardiogram 4chambers” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Basic research on pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure: “Blausen 0196 Catheter RightHeart Body” BruceBlaus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Clinical research on chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: “Blausen 0028 Angioplasty BalloonInflated 01” Blausen Medical Communications, Inc. / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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