71129 - Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Cardiomyopathy: Role of the Paediatric Cardiology

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Marco Bonvicini
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/11
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Medicine (cod. 0080)

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

o Ductus-dependent congenital heart disease

o Congenital heart disease with outflow tract obstruction

o Complex congenital heart disease

· Medical and Surgical management of GUCH patients

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

Readings/Bibliography

Cardiologia (Angelo Branzi, Fernando M. Picchio - Ed. Mc Graw Hill Education)

Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners (Myung K. Park - Mosby)

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons using slide andvideos

Assessment methods

Congenital heart disease: surgical treatment


Venue : Aula Didattica
Date 08 May 2013 ore 15-17,
Date 10 May 2013 ore 14-17,
Date 15 May 2013 ore 15-17,
Date 17 May 2013 ore 14-17,

Date 20 May 2013 ore 16-19
Date 22 May 2013 ore 15-17,

Date 27 May 2013 ore 14-17,
Date 29 May 2013 ore 15-17,
Date 05 June 2013 ore 15-17,
Date 07 June 2013 ore 14-17,
Date 12 June 2013 ore 14-17.


Final test: quiz multiple choice - Date 12/06 h. 15.00

Teaching tools

· Videos

· Slides

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/marco.bonvicini

Office hours

See the website of Marco Bonvicini