Thoracic and Vascular Pathology

Recommended Prerequisites

anatomy; physiology; Microbiology; pathophysiology; workup; pharmacology

Teaching Methods

Lectures, Theoretical and practical; practices; frequency of Nursing, Technical Laboratories and Operating Rooms

Learning Outcomes

The student must be able to:

- Elaborar A medical history in a patient with chest and vascular pathology;

- Establish a differential diagnosis and propose a research agenda based on the application of the most appropriate tests;

- Apply an appropriate treatment plan for each pathology, given the urgency of criteria;

- Establish A prediction.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Medical and surgical aspects of thoracic and vascular pathology;

- Stable and unstable coronary disease. Acute myocardial infarction, and mechanical complications;

- Common Congenital Diseases;

- Valvulopathy mitral, aortic, pulmonary and tricuspid;

- Infective endocarditis;

- Myocardial Diseases, pericardium and heart failure. Heart transplantation.

- Pulmonary thromboembolism and pulmonary hypertension;

- Arrtmias;

- CV Prevention;

- Emergencies in Cardiology;

- Cardiac tumors;

- Aneurysms and dissections of the thoracic aorta;

- Abdominal aneurysms;

- Peripheral arterial Pathology;

- Peripheral venous pathology;

- Pathology obstructive airway;

- Infectious Pathology of the respiratory system. infections

- Lung cancer;

- Environmental Respiratory Pathology;

- Interstitial lung pathology;

- Pleural pathology;

- Pulmonary vascular pathology;

- Respiratory sleep pathology.

Head Lecturer(s)

Manuel Jesus Antunes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Continuous assessment and attend classes: 50.0%

Bibliography

- Principles of Surgery. 7th ed. Schwartz SI. McGraw-Hill ed. New York. 2009

- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (2012), McGraw Hill Book Company, 2011

- Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (2012)

- ESC Guidelines - Web (www.escardio.org)

- Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, Fourth Edition

Ed. McGraw – Hill Book Company, 2008

- Robalo Cordeiro AJ. Pneumologia Fundamental (1 vol.)

Ed. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1995.