23987 - Heart Surgery (A-K)

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Giuseppe Marinelli
  • Credits: 1
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

Indications, contraindications, early and late results about the surgical treatment of principal cardiac diseases.

Course contents

1) Coronary artery bypass graft

2) Aortic valve surgery

3) Mitral and tricuspid valve surgery

4) Valve prostheses: pros and cons

5) Surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation

6) Aortic dissection and trauma

7) Heart transplant

8) VAD

Teaching methods

Lessons with slides and video

Opportunity to see the cardiac operations in operating room

Assessment methods

Oral exams

Teaching tools

Slides and video

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppe Marinelli