SCIENZE MEDICHE IIModule MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO CARDIOVASCOLARE
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: INES PAOLA MONTEExpected Learning Outcomes
To orientate the student to learn the fundamentals of the major and most frequent cardiovascular diseases, integrating the pathophysiological study with the clinical methodology, the diagnostic procedures, and the pharmacological treatment directly and indirectly related to the practice of dentistry, in order to understand the indications of the pharmacological therapy of systemic pathologies, the interferences with the dental therapies, and their optimal management.
Detailed Course Content
- Cardiovascular causes of chest pain, Ischemic cardiopathy, Pericarditis, Pulmonary embolism, Aortic dissection
- Hypertension and hypertensive emergency
- Hypotension. Syncope. Cardiac arrest and CRP
- Heart failure. Atrial fibrillation
- Endocarditis and prophylaxis
- Prosthetic valves and intracardiac devices. Anticoagulant therapy
Textbook Information
- Harrison: Principi di Medicina Interna, Casa ed. Ambrosiana (last edition)
- Manuale di Malattie Cardiovascolari www.sicardiologia.it
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most common Cardiovascular diseases, signs and symptoms | |
| 2 | Chest pain, acute coronary syndromes | |
| 3 | aortic dissection | |
| 4 | Endocarditis and prophylaxis | |
| 5 | Valvular diseases | |
| 6 | tromboembolic disease | |
| 7 | Cardioembolic diseases, valvular prosthesis and devices | |
| 8 | heart failure | |
| 9 | atrial fibrillation | |
| 10 | Anticoagulant therapies | |
| 11 | Arterial hypertension | |
| 12 | Hypertensive emergencies | |
| 13 | Hypotension and syncope | |
| 14 | Cardiac Shock | |
| 15 | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | |
| 16 | Aritmie ventricolari minacciose e blocchi |