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The
Georgian Interntional Society of Cardiomyopathy was founded on April
30, 2001. Mamanti Rogava,
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MD – president-elect of the Society, is a
pioneer of echocardiography in Georgia, senior scientific worker of
Department of Cardiomyopathy and Heart Ischemic Disease in National
Center of Therapy. Academician, Prof. Nodar Kipshidze
– honorary
chairman of the Society. Dr. Kakha Nadarya – exacutive director of
the Society, secretary – Dr. Manana Gudushauri . Leading specialists,
including Academician Irakli Chumburidze, Akademician Lado
Bachutashvili, Akademician Pridon Todua, Prof. Vakhtang Chumburidze,
Prof. Dimitri Tsiskarishvili, Prof. Vakhtang Meunargia, Prof. Tengiz
Tsertsvadze, Alexandre Papitashvili, Giorgi Didava, Karaman Paghava,
Nugzar Uberi, Giorgi Chakhunashvili, Ketevan Nemsadze and others are
the Board-members of the Society. |
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Prof.
Nodar Kipshidze,
the Director of the Scientific Research Institute
of Therapy now National Center of Therapy is an outstanding
physician and scientists, well-known all over the world. ,
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The
institute was bounded 40 years ago, and a Department
of
Cardiomyopathy and Ischemic Heart Disease was opened in 1979 under
the initiative of Prof. N. Kipshidze, who is the head of the
department since then. The idea of the existence of such a
department and its main field of scientific research was supported
by a famous English cardiologist and scientist Prof. P. Goodwin in
the 1977, ,
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Prof. Goodwin himself visited the Department and got
familiarized with the work carried out during his staying in
Georgia. Academician N. Kipshidze and his co-workers were the first,
who studied viral myocarditis, as one of the diseases, that precede
dilated cardiomyopathy – the fact which today is recognized by the
leading cardiologists of the world.
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The
Department critically studies and analyses new therapeutic approaches
and the last results achieved at the leading hospitals of the world, and implement them in everyday practice. Already existed problems are
approached from the new angles and original ways of treatment and
research era used. The Department,
which was the first among other
clinics (e.g. Kiev, Moscow) that started to work on this problem,
today still successfully continues its activity.
The main fields of research are: elaboration of criteria for
differential diagnostics and new approaches to treatment of heart
disease; secondary prevention of viral myocarditis and cardiomyopathy
(dilated/hypertrophic) and atherosclerotic complications. Clinical and
experimental studies carried out at the Department and in
collaboration with other centers; data on acute viral myocarditis and
cardiomyopathy accumulated on hundreds of patients indicate that
cardiotropic viruses (Coxsackie B and others) together with genetic
markers may cause viral myocarditis transition to delated
cardiomyopathy. These findings are supported by the results achieved
in many leading centers of the world. To evaluate clinical condition
and neurologic status, as well as for diagnosis, evaluation of the
disease severity and prognosis modern, highly technological diagnostic
methods are used. The Department actively participates in
International Workshops and Symposia on viral myocarditis, dilated and
hypertropic cardiomyopathy, ischemic heart disease, arterial
hypertension and heart failure. The Department
was a co-organizer of one Trans-Union (1984( and two Satellite
Symposia (1988, 1991).
A
large number of scientific works and monographes were published. The
Department has strong and fruitful contacts with foreign colleagues.
Activities, carried out by the Department for many years, result in
foundation of the International Society of Cadiomyopathy, that unites
physicians working in the different fields.
Statistical data on cardiomyopathy and viral myocarditis, due to
well-known reasons do not exist in Georgia today. To fill the existing
gap, for the last 15 years systematically perform retrospective
analysis of the data on viral myocarditis and cardiomyopathy
accumulated at the cardiologic, neurologic and pediatric hospitals of
the city of Tbilisi.
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