Tokyo Women's Medical University

School of Medicine

Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Cardiology

Overview

The Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Cardiology is a place that provides diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases including heart and blood vessels, lifestyle guidance, genetic counseling, and medical treatment including cardiac catheterization, as well as subsequent follow-up care. Focusing on heart disease from birth (congenital heart disease). Our main focus is on heart disease at birth (congenital heart disease), including Kawasaki disease, myocardial disease, arrhythmias, heart infections, and blood pressure abnormalities. Patients are covered from the fetal period before birth, through neonatal, infant, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, with the aim of creating a lifelong developmental cardiology that looks at the entire life of patients with congenital heart disease. As one of the top cardiac care facilities in Japan and the world, we provide comprehensive care for patients in cooperation with related departments such as cardiovascular surgery, cardiology, anesthesiology, the Maternal and Child Health Center, pediatrics, psychiatry, and the radiology imaging department, as a facility that widely gathers the patients.
Under the slogan of "the world's best and safest medical care," our department is striving to enhance its medical care system.

Education Details

The goal of the training program is to develop pediatric cardiologists while practicing high quality medical care and research. The program provides training in diagnostics, including morphological, pathophysiological, and prognostic diagnosis, and medical therapy, including drug treatment and catheterization, for a wide range of diseases, examining patients from fetuses with cardiac abnormalities to those who have reached adulthood. Students will be trained in non-invasive diagnostic methods such as echocardiography, CT, and MRI, as well as cardiac catheterization and catheter therapy, enabling them to grow as cardiovascular pediatric specialists. In addition to the Japanese Society of Pediatrics Specialist, students can obtain the Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology Specialist and the Japanese Society of Cardiology Specialist certificates. For more information about training, please refer to our Department's website.

Weekly Schedule for Residents

Check-in	Mon-Fri 7:50-17:00 Sat 12:00
Catheterization	Mon-Fri 2-3 cases/day
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Group Circulation	Mon 9:00-10:00
Abstract Reading Session	Mon 17:30-18:00
Conference with Cardiovascular Surgery	Tue 18:00-19:00
Faculty rounds	Wed 9:00-10:00
Joint Conference with Obstetrics	Wed (1st) 17:00-18:00
Echo Conference	Wed 19:00-20:00
Catheterization Conference	Fri 18:00-18:30
Pediatric Cardiology Conference	Fri 18:30-20:00

Research Details

[Clinical Study]
- Comparison of the effects of tolvaptan and trichlormethiazide in congenital heart disease
- Effect of Sildenafil on Fontan circulation
- Clinical significance of serum TGFβ in the Fontan circulation
- Prognostic study on the remote postoperative phase of Fontan
- Study of thrombus formation in the remote postoperative period after Fontan
- Epidemiological study on Reoperation after Tetralogy of Fallot Surgery
[Basic Research]
- Anatomy of congenital heart disease (complete with about 4000 cardiac specimens)
- Cardiac development (coronary artery, atrioventricular valve, outflow tract formation, etc.)
- Molecular genetics (genetic analysis of LQT, IPAH, cardiomyopathy, etc.)
- Pathophysiology of cardiac diseases using iPS cells

Faculty

Kei Inai
Mikiko Ishido
Daiji takeuchi

Related links

Research Achievements Database

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