03780 - Cardiovascular Apparatus Diseases

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in School of Dentistry (cod. 5988)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student has acquired a basic knowledge of the main cardiological syndromes and their mutual interactions with dental procedures. In particular, the student is able to: know the risk of stomatological procedures in various cardiovascular diseases; know the cardiological pathologies that require prophylaxis for infective endocarditis; know the protocols for managing dental procedures in patients treated with anticoagulant and antiplatelet drugs; know the symptoms and signs of heart failure; know the symptoms and signs of coronary syndromes; know the basic procedures of cardio-respiratory resuscitation."

Course contents

Main diagnostic techniques

Coronary syndromes

Valvulopathies

Cardiomyopathies

Arrhythmias

Cardiorespiratory arrest

Readings/Bibliography

Heart (W. Hurst)

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Multiple choice test

Teaching tools

Power point slides

Office hours

See the website of Tullio Palmerini