71131 - Paediatric Heart Transplant

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

Date

04 June 2018 hours 15-18

08 June 2018 hours 15-18

11 June 2018 hours 15-18

15 June 2018 hours 15-18

18 June 2018 hours 15-18

22 June 2018 hours 15-18

25 June 2018 hours 15-18

29 June 2018 hours 15-18

Venue: classroom E.Piccinini (polo Murri)

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

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