Introducing Inha University Hospital’s Cardiovascular Center

Recent spread of westernized lifestyle and increase of elderly population has triggered rapid growth of cardiovascular disease. According to the report of Bureau of Statistics, 23.9% of all-cause mortality was due to cardiovascular diseases in 1998. Cardiovascular Center of Inha University Hospital has been actively engaged in continuous clinical research and providing quality health care services, education, and consultation with state-of-the-art medical equipment and professional staff in order to step up as the world’s leading medical research institution. Tightly integrated Inter-departmental medical service among pediatric cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, and anesthesiology was the driving force for Inha Cardiovascular Center to position itself as the best medical institution of the west sea region in Korea.

Inha Cardiovascular Center is specialized in proving all areas of treatment involved with heart, vascular, lung, and esophagus as follows;

Heart diseases: All adult heart disease on heart valves, coronary arteries, aorta, and all congenital heart disease on children and infants.

Vascular diseases: Arteries or veins on arms and legs, varicose vein, abdominal aneurysm

Lung diseases: Lung or pleural diseases including lung cancer, tuberculosis, pleurisy, pneumothorax, rib tumor and thoracic trauma

Esophageal diseases: Esophageal cancer, chronic esophageal stricture, and esophageal tumor

Inha Cardiovascular Center provides the most appropriate treatment with Computerized Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Image Diagnostic System. Inha Cardiovascular Center has delivered satisfactory result for the patients and their family by maximizing the therapeutic effect of the surgical treatment accompanied by up-to-date drug and radiation therapy. In addition, Inha Cardiovascular Center has further developed the technique of the recent video thoracoscopy to use it less invasively.