title: [The cardiology department].
abstract: Cardiology was present since the very beginning of the Erasme hospital. The Department of Cardiology was created in 1979. This department is made of a hospitalization unit (54 beds), a coronary care unit (12 beds) and a large technical unit. Clinical activity has increased tremendously and this had led to an important research activity in the fields of cardio-respiratory and metabolic adaptation to exercise, particularly after cardiac transplantation, of cardiovascular epidemiology, of clinical pharmacology and in pulmonary as well as systemic hypertension.
authors.affiliation: jdegaute@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Degaute
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Berkenboom
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Renard
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stoupel
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Unger
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vachiery
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van de Borne
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D035843:Biomedical Research; D016507:Cardiology Service, Hospital; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans