Cardiac Surgery

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Topic

The aim of this course is to delineate the most common surgical cardiac diseases. We lay emphasis on coronary heart disease and coronary artery bypass surgery. The surgical treatment of aortic dissection, cardiac failure, atrial fibrillation, cardiac tumors, pericardial and valvular diseases are also subjects of the lectures and the seminars. We also delineate the special technique of cardiopulmonary bypass, myocardial protection

and hypothermia.

Lectures

• 1. Brief history of cardiac surgery. Basic considerations - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 2. Extracorporeal circulation, hypothermia, myocardial protection - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 3. Congenital cardiac surgery - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 4. Surgery for ischemic heart disease - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 5. Surgical therapy for valvular heart disease - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 6. Surgery for heart failure. Surgery for atrial fibrillation - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 7. Pericardial diseases. Cardiac tumors. Aorta atherosclerosis, aneurysm, dissection. Traumatic injuries of the heart and great arteries - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)

Practices

• 1. Introduction, personal and technical conditions of cardiac surgery - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 2. Introduction, personal and technical conditions of cardiac surgery - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 3. Examination, preparation and postoperative follow-up of the patients with coronary and valvular heart disease - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 4. Examination, preparation and postoperative follow-up of the patients with coronary and valvular heart disease - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)
• 5. Operative technique, instruments, suturing on phantom - Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

1. Klinikai kardiológia, 3. bővített kiadás, Szerkesztő: Dr. Tomcsányi János, Medintel Könyvkiadó, 1999.

2. Kirklin-Barratt-Boyes - Cardiac Surgery - Morphology, diagnostic criteria, natural history, techniques, results and indications, John Wiley & Sons, USA,

3. L. Henry Edmunds, Jr., MD. - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult - www. ctsnet. org/book

4. Braunwald: Heart Disease - A Textbook Of Cardiovascular Medicine, 6th edition, Saunders Company, USA, 2001.

5. Szívsebészet jegyzet, Pécs 2009

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

aktív részvétel, maximális 3 hiányzás

Mid-term exams

-

Making up for missed classes

megbeszélés szerint

Exam topics/questions

Basic considerations

Extracorporeal circulation, hypothermia, myocardial protection

Congenital cardiac surgery

Surgery for ischemic heart disease

Surgical therapy for valvular heart disease

Surgery for heart failure. Surgery for atrial fibrillation

Pericardial diseases.

Cardiac tumors.

Aorta atherosclerosis, aneurysm, dissection.

Traumatic injuries of the heart and great arteries

Examiners

• Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Hejjel László
• Lénárd László 1991 (Szívcentrum)
• Pintér Eörs
• Szabados Sándor (ELHUNYT)