About the Department
The department was established in 1990. The team comprises 45 members including two doctors of medical sciences, three candidates of medical sciences, and two high level certificate physicians. Employees of the department defended four dissertations for degree of doctor of medical sciences and 17 dissertations for degree of candidate of medical sciences. Over 650 scientific works including five books and six manuals for physicians were published; six patents of inventions of the Russian Federation and four software program patents were received.
Main areas of scientific research
The development and implementation in healthcare practice of the interactive system for diagnostics, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular diseases in children (disorders of cardiac rhythm and conduction, myocardial diseases, congenital heart diseases, and hypertensions).
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Works in the fields of medical and physical rehabilitation of children with congenital heart diseases with functionally single ventricle after completion of hemodynamic correction are studied.
Patterns of development of essential hypertension in teenagers are identified. Personalized model for prediction of stable forms of arterial hypertension in teenagers has been developed and implemented.
Practical activities
Research fellows and physicians of the department provide consulting assistance to children in Tomsk and Tomsk region as well as to children from other regions. Annually, employees of the department as part of diagnostic teams visit different regions of Siberia where they identify patients with various pathologies of cardiovascular system requiring examination in Cardiology Research Institute, Tomsk NRMC.
In the department, the intensive care unit equipped with state-