71131 - Paediatric Heart Transplant

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • 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

Readings/Bibliography

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

Teaching methods

·         Frontal teaching

·         Live Surgery

Teaching tools

·         Videos

·         Slides

Office hours

See the website of Gaetano Domenico Gargiulo