ID:
501863
Duration (hours):
32
CFU:
4
SSD:
MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO CARDIOVASCOLARE
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 16/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
At the end of the course students will have the skills to diagnose and manage the main cardiovascular disease; Carry out a clinical examination of the patient with suspected cardiovascular diseases - What are the most relevant cardiovascular test to aid the clinical diagnosis and how to interpret them.
For each cardiovascular condition, such as acute coronary syndrome or acute heart failure, the student will know: what is (definition), how common and important it is (epidemiology), why and how it happens (etiology, pathophysiology), what are the clinical and instrumental features, and how is it diagnosed. Also natural history and complications will be defined. Finally, what to do to treat the condition disease and where (therapeutical notes, homecare and hospital). Possible stages of the disease requiring urgent action (how to recognize the urgency, how to treat it) - In which advanced stages is necessary to consider surgery.
For each cardiovascular condition, such as acute coronary syndrome or acute heart failure, the student will know: what is (definition), how common and important it is (epidemiology), why and how it happens (etiology, pathophysiology), what are the clinical and instrumental features, and how is it diagnosed. Also natural history and complications will be defined. Finally, what to do to treat the condition disease and where (therapeutical notes, homecare and hospital). Possible stages of the disease requiring urgent action (how to recognize the urgency, how to treat it) - In which advanced stages is necessary to consider surgery.
Course Prerequisites
Fluency in English and Knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system
Teaching Methods
The course is organized in: Theoretical lessons, conducted with presentations (PowerPoint projected on Screen) through which the learner will acquire the theoretical knowledge necessary for the identification of the main symptomatic heart diseases, their medical history; pharmacological and surgical treatments/methods) and practical exercises in the hospital course where the student will have the opportunity to put into practice, under the expert supervision of the Teacher, what I have learned in lectures.
Assessment Methods
Oral examination. Grading scale 0-30.
The student will take the cardiology, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery modules in the same exam session. The grade will correspond to the average of the 3 interviews taking into account each module's CFU.
The student will take the cardiology, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery modules in the same exam session. The grade will correspond to the average of the 3 interviews taking into account each module's CFU.
Texts
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine: Volumes 1 and 2, 18th Edition - Braunwald's Heart Disease: 9th edition
- ECG Made Easy - John Hampton
- For further information: Braunwald's Heart Disease - E-Book: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine
- ECG Made Easy - John Hampton
- For further information: Braunwald's Heart Disease - E-Book: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine
Contents
Cardiology: Basis of ECG - Physiology of the coronary circulation and pathophysiology of coronary artery disease - Chronic ischemic heart disease - Invasive and non-invasive diagnosis of chronic ischemic heart disease - Acute coronary syndrome: NSTEMI – STEMI - unstable angina and their treatment - Molecular and cellular therapies for ischemic heart disease - Myocarditis - Pericarditis - Basis of electrophysiology and genetics - Electrophysiological study and trans-catheter ablation - Ventricular tachyarrhythmias - QT Long Syndrome and CPVT - Brugada Syndrome and short QT Syndrome - Atrial fibrillation and TPSV - Pharmacological therapy of arrhythmias - Bradyarrhythmias - Implantable cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers - Syncope - Physiology and physiopathology of autonomic nervous system - Physiopathology, epidemiology, clinical presentation and treatment of heart failure - Treatment of chronic heart failure - Acute heart failure and Cardiogenic Shock - Valvulopathies of the Aorta and Mitral- Endocarditis - Acute right ventricular failure - Chronic pulmonary hypertension- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and ARVD - Congenital heart diseases
Course Language
English
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