The course aims to provide basic cultural knowledge on the main diseases of the cardiovascular system, the main pharmacological approaches and the main surgical or percutaneous correction techniques when possible.
Teaching Methods
lectures and live collegial evaluations of electrocardiographic tracings, echocardiographic examinations in the different cardiac diseases
Assessment Methods
oral practical tests, structured and unstructured, repeated over time in progress.
Texts
none
Contents
The main topics are: ischemic heart disease, heart failure, aortic and mitral valve disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic post-embolism pulmonary hypertension.