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PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA - MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO CARDIOVASCOLARE - channel 3

Teaching Staff

VALERIA CALVI - Module CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE - MED/11 - 4 CFU
PIERA CAPRANZANO - Module CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
LUIGI DI PINO - Module CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
ALESSIA GIAQUINTA - Module CHIRURGIA VASCOLARE - MED/22 - 2 CFU
DOMENICO GIUSEPPE GRASSO - Module CARDIAC SURGERY - MED/23 - 1 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
  

  Acquisition of knowledge and comprehention etiological, physiopathological and clinical bases of cardiovascular diseases, together with the technical aspects of laboratory, functional and imaging diagnostic.

• CHIRURGIA VASCOLARE
  

  Approach to the main arterial and venous steno-obstructive diseases. I and II level diagnostic methods for peripheral vascular diseases, thoracic and abdomen vascular pathologies. Open and endovascular surgical principles and techniques

• CARDIAC SURGERY
  

  Acquisition of the essential elements about cardiopulmonary bypass. Acquisition of basic knowledge about diagnosis and surgical treatment of most common congenital heart diseases, about acquired valvular diseases and ischemic heart disease. Acquisition of the essential elements about diagnosis and treatment of mechanical post-MI complications and about thoracic aortic diseases. Acquisition of basic knowledge about indications for heart transplantation and post operative complications

Course Structure

• CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
  

  Frontal lessons

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

• CHIRURGIA VASCOLARE
  

  frontal teaching

• CARDIAC SURGERY
  

  Lessons

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Detailed Course Content

• CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
  

  Ischemic heart disease
  Valve heart disease
  Heart failure
  Rheumatic infection and Endocarditis
  Cardiomyopathy
  Diseases of the pericardium
  Aortic dissection

  Pericardial disease
  Chest pain
  Pulmonary thrombo-embolism
  Syncope, Hypotension and Shock
  Electrocardiography
  Arrhythmias and sudden death
  Cardiovascular Imaging
  Congenital heart disease
  Pulmonary hypertension
  Hypertension
  Renal artery disease and nephrovascular hypertension

• CHIRURGIA VASCOLARE
  

  Topics concerning the main peripheral vascular diseases and large arterial and venous vessels:
  
  1) Carotid and supra-aortic trunks pathology.
  
  2) thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm.
  
  3) thoracic and abdominal aortic dissection
  
  4) Aorto-iliac obstructive pathology
  
  5) Acute and chronic peripheral artery disease
  
  6) Critical limb ischemia
  
  7) Vascular access for hemodialysis
  
  8) Steno-obstructive pathology of the large veins
  
  9) Chronic venous insufficiency of the lower limbs
  
  10) kidney transplant techniques

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

• CARDIAC SURGERY
  

  • Principles of cardiopulmonary bypass.

  • Surgical treatment of simplex congenital heart diseases (Patent ductus arteriosus, Coarctation of aorta, Atrial septal defect, Ventricular septal defect) and complex congenital heart diseases( Tetralogy of Fallot, Transposition of the great arteries).

  • Acquired valvular heart diseases (mitral, aortic and tricuspid valve): surgical indications; surgical conservative treatment and replacement; biological and mechanical prosthesis, stentless prosthesis.

  • Ischemic heart disease: diagnosis and surgical indications; surgical treatment on pump and off pump; conduits for revascularization; long term results.

  • Mechanical post-MI complications (mitral incompetence, ventricular septal defect, free left ventricular wall rupture, left ventricular aneurysm); surgical treatment.

  • Thoracic aortic aneurysm: classification, surgical indications and treatment.

  • Aortic dissection: classification, surgical indications and treatment.

  • Heart transplantation: donor selection (brain death); surgical indications; immunosuppressive therapy, post operative complications; short and long term results.

  • Ventricular assist devices and total artificial heart

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Textbook Information

• CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
  

  T.R. Harrison – Principi di Medicina Interna – McGraw Hill

  Fuster et al – Il Cuore – McGraw Hill

  S. Dalla Volta, et al. – Malattie del Cuore e dei Vasi - McGraw Hil

  Pdf file provided by the teacher

  http://studium.unict.it/dokeos/2018/main/document/document.php?cidReq=11593&curdirpath=/shared_folder

• CHIRURGIA VASCOLARE
  
  • Chirurgia Vascolare - Carlo Setacci - Edizioni Minerva Medica
  • Latest Frontiers of Hemodynamics, Imaging and Treatment of obstructive venous disease - GIAQUINTA A., LEE B. B., SETACCI C., VEROUX P., ZAMBONI P. - Edizioni Minerva Medica
• CARDIAC SURGERY
  

  Dionigi, Cabitza, Castelli Grossi, Rigatti Chirurgia - Basi teoriche e Chirurgia generale - Chrurgia specialistica Ed Elsevier Masson

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