The course aims to provide basic cultural knowledge on the physiology of the cardiovascular system in normal and pathological conditions, on the causes of deviations from normality and on compensatory mechanisms.
Teaching Methods
lectures and live assessments of electrocardiographic tracings, echocardiographic examinations and right heart catheterizations
Assessment Methods
oral practical tests, structured and unstructured, repeated over time in itinere.
Texts
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Contents
The main topics are: physiology of systemic and pulmonary circulation; physiology of coronary circulation; cardiac function in normal conditions and heart failure; main techniques for the study of the cardiovascular system: baseline and stress electrocardiogram, echocardiography, coronary angiography, right heart catheterization.
