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Michael
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Michael
Tsinamdzgvrishvili was the founder (1946) and the first director of
Scientific-Research Institute of Cardiology in Tbilisi. The Institute
during next 16 years had been the only foundation of this profile in
former Soviet Union. Since that time the staff of the Institute of
Cardiology has been successfully implementing a number of significant
projects in the field of clinical and basic cardiovascular science. Prof.
Tsinamdzgvrishvili had designed and implemented the first epidemiological
studies on cardiovascular diseases in the former Soviet Union and
performed the first prevention program within Geogian population. Based on
large scale population studies, he set forward the problem of and the need
for the investigation of juvenile hypertension in the country. In
1952 he advanced his original grading of hypertension. Important advantage
of the classification was that it considered features of clinical course
of the disease, specifying “reversible” form of the disease and
“concealed” (equivalent to present “high-normal”) needing
continuous monitoring grade of hypertension. In
1955 Michael Tsinamdzgvrishvili proposed the classification of myocardial
distrophies. In his monograph “Clinical and Experimental Aspects of the
Renal Genesis of Hypertension” (1948) Michael Tsinamdzgvrishvili set
forward the own concept of the etiology of hypertension. M.
Tsinamdzgvrishvili was among the first professors of the Tbilisi State
University established in 1918 and made significant contribution to the
education and training of Georgian physicians, especially, cardiologists.
His school of cardiologists has given the country many recognized
clinicians and research workers.
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