Our mission is to develop new medical devices for cardiovascular research and medicine to improve patient outcomes.
We focus on creating new medical devices for two major goals; 1) to design new biomimetic model systems that replicate clinically relevant environments to improve research and development of new therapies and devices, and 2) to develop new materials to make medical devices to reduce their complications.
About95 percent of our catheterizations are done using radial artery access. An interventional cardiologist places a catheter in the radial artery in your wrist instead of in the femoral artery in your groin.
Coronary Angiography is a diagnostic procedure which is done to detect blockage in the vessels supplying the heart. It is a procedure done under light sedation.
PTCA is a Cardiovascular interventional procedure where blocked vessels of the heart are opened by minimal access invasive technique.
This is a Cardiac Interventional procedure in which the left sided valve (mitral valve) is dilated by means of a balloon which releases the obstruction of the valve (mitral valve).
Cardiovascular diseases is a major cause of death
Cardiology and diseases Research conducts research to find cures for common heart conditions and prevent people from dying of cardiac diseases. Despite major advances in the treatment of cardiac diseases, heart problems are still the leading cause of mortality in Australia. Cardiac diseases affects about 1.4 million people in this country, and about 350,000 people will have a heart attack at some point in their lives.
Our research aims to reduce this unacceptable burden by addressing two of the major problems encountered by cardiac patients: sudden death after electrical instability of the heart, and death and morbidity from heart failure after a heart attack.
