Medicine and Surgery

Main teaching objectives: Students must have an adequate knowledge of the most important cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, in terms of basic research, nosography, etiopathogenesis, pathophysiology, anatomopathology and clinic. Cardiovascular Diseases Fundamental: signs and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases; cardiovascular risk factors; metabolic syndrome; atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis; ischemic heart disease: angina, cardiac syndrome X, acute myocardial infarction and major complications; aortic diseases; major hyperkinetic and hypokinetic arrhythmias; valvular disease: mitral stenosis and regurgitation, aortic stenosis and regurgitation, tricuspid and pulmonary stenosis and regurgitation; primitive and secondary cardiomyopathies; myocarditis; endocarditis; pericarditis; acute and chronic heart failure; systemic and pulmonary hypertension; arterial hypotension, pre-syncope, syncope, shock; acute pulmonary edema; acute and chronic pulmonary heart disease; major cardiac tumors; congenital heart disease: atrial and ventricular septal defect, ductus Botalli patency, overview on the remaining congenital heart diseases; major cardiac emergencies; cardiac sudden death. Basis of ECG. Overview on the main cardiovascular therapies. Professionalizing: history, clinical examination and auscultation of the cardiac patient; basis of instrumental diagnostic tools: basic ECG, mono-dimensional and two-dimensional echocardiography, main laboratory markers, chest X-ray. Overview on the main diagnostic techniques: CT, MRI, scintigraphy, ergometry, pharmacological stress echocardiography, cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography. Gender Medicine: risk factors codified and new insight for CoronarY Artery Disease, prevention and treatment particular features.

The knowledge of the pathophysiologic basis and clinical and instrumental diagnosi of cardiovascular disease and risk factors for cardiovascular disease are the basic prerequisites.

Malattie del Cuore. Braunwald. Edited by Drs. Robert O. Bonow, Douglas L. Mann, Douglas P. Zipes, and Peter Libby HARRISON Practice Cardiologia McGraw Hill editore. Manuale di Malattie Cardiovascolari, edito dalla Società Italiana di Cardiologia, vede la collaborazione di quasi tutte le Cardiologie Universitarie Italiane. Ciascun utente, compilato il modulo di registrazione, otterrà dalla Segreteria della SIC una password personalizzata, che gli consentirà di “navigare” nell'e-book. 2015 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). European Heart Journal (2015) 36, 2921–2964. 2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation The Task Force for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), European Heart Journal (2018) 39, 119–177 2020 Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) in Patients Presenting without Persistent ST-Segment Elevation (Management of) Guidelines ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines 19 Aug 2020 European Heart Journal 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure. The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) European Heart Journal 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines 30 Aug 2021 European Heart Journal 2022 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines 26 Aug 2022 European Heart Journal 2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death. ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines 26 Aug 2022 European Heart Journal 2022 Guidelines on cardio-oncology 26 Aug 2022 European Heart Journal

At the end of the course, students have to undergo an oral exam, answering questions asked by all professors in order to demonstrate specific knowledge and clinical skills.

The lessons will be held in presence with the support of teaching material prepared by the teacher and the aid of slides.

Cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular risk maps Ischemic heart disease Valvular heart disease Heart failure Gender differences in cardiovascular disease

Knowledge of cardiovascular pathophysiology

Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE- clinical and scientific approach Edizioni Minerva Medica

Mandatory attendance

Oral examination

Frontal lesson