71130 - Surgical Treatment of Congenital Cardiomyopathy

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

Improving understanding of concepts in cardiac disease and treatment

·Diagnosis and management of heart disease from fetal life through adolescence, as well as the adult with congenital heart disease

· Embriology

· Fetal diagnosis

· State of the art on the congenital heart disease: medical and surgical treatment

· Grown-up congenital heart disease

· Treatment of the end stage heart failure in patients with CHD

· Rule of cardiac transplantation and VAD in patients with CHD

Course contents

·         Management of neonates with congenital heart disease

·         Medical and Surgical management of congenital cardiac defects

·         Ductus-dependent congenital heart disease

·         Congenital heart disease with outflow tract obstruction

·         Complex congenital heart disease

·         Medical and Surgical management of  GUCH patients

·         End stage heart failure : cardiac heart transplantation and VAD implantation


Final test: quiz multiple choice -

Readings/Bibliography

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery , Constantine Mavroudis Carl L., M.D. Backer , Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Teaching methods

· Frontal teaching

· Live Surgery

Assessment methods

Final test: quiz multiple choice - Date 39 June 2018 - h. 17.00

Teaching tools

· Videos

· Slides

Office hours

See the website of Gaetano Domenico Gargiulo