Medicine and Surgery

Course Unit: Cardiology Contents: Cardiovascular diseases: signs and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases; cardiovascular risk factors; arterial hypertension and hypertensive urgency and emergency; ischemic heart disease: effort angina, acute coronary syndromes (unstable angina, myocardial infarction-STEMI NSTEMI- and major acute and chronic complications); major supraventricular and ventricular hyperkinetic and hypokinetic arrhythmias; atrial fibrillation; valvular disease: mitral stenosis and regurgitation, aortic stenosis and regurgitation; primitive and secondary cardiomyopathies: myocarditis, endocarditis and pericarditis; congestive heart failure; pre-syncope, syncope, shock; acute heart failure, acute pulmonary edema; acute and chronic pulmonary heart disease; pulmonary hypertension; major cardiac tumors; congenital heart disease: atrial and ventricular septal defect, ductus Botalli patency, overview of the remaining congenital heart diseases; cardiac sudden death. ECG: fundamentals and interpretation. Overview of the main cardiovascular therapies. Professionalizing activities: history, clinical examination and auscultation of the cardiac patient; basis of instrumental diagnostic tools: ECG interpretation, mono-dimensional and two-dimensional echocardiography, chest X-ray; ergometry, scintigraphy, pharmacological stress echocardiography. Main laboratory markers. Overview of the main diagnostic imaging techniques: CT, MRI, cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography.

Course Unit: Cardiology Requirements: For a good understanding of the topics considered in this course, students should have adequately studied the subjects of the following exams: Biology, Histology, Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy, Clinical scientific method.

Course Unit: Cardiology Suggested textbooks: Harrison's Cardiovascular Medicine 2/E 2nd Edition; Garcia TB, 12-Lead ECG. The art of interpretation. 2nd Edition.

Mandatory attendance

Course Unit: Cardiology The final evaluation of the entire course will be based on the results of an exam (oral).

Course Unit: Cardiology Clinical papers published in the main high-impact cardiovascular scientific journals, guidelines for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases included in the program.

Course Unit: Cardiology Frontal teaching in the classroom and elective theoretical and practical lessons in small groups.