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Interventional Cardiology

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 24 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 24 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAE-IKR-T
  • 2 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Elective modul
  • both
Prerequisites:

OAP-BPR-T finished

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 15

Topic

Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of heart diseases. An increasing number of procedures can be performed on the heart by catheterization including coronary and structural heart interventions. These methods revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of cardiology. The course gives and introduction into indications, working environment and armamentarium involving medical devices and adjunctive therapy.

Lectures

  • 1. Introduction: Interventional cardiology, a brief history with significant impact - Kónyi Attila
  • 2. Introduction: Interventional cardiology, a brief history with significant impact - Tornyos Dániel
  • 3. Vascular access sites: choice, risk, benefits, post-procedural management - Tornyos Dániel
  • 4. Vascular access sites: choice, risk, benefits, post-procedural management - Tornyos Dániel
  • 5. Coronary angiography – basics, catheters - Tornyos Dániel
  • 6. Coronary angiography – basics, catheters - Tornyos Dániel
  • 7. Coronary angiography – IVUS, OCT, FFR - Tornyos Dániel
  • 8. Coronary angiography – IVUS, OCT, FFR - Tornyos Dániel
  • 9. Coronary interventions: guide catheters, wires, balloons - Tornyos Dániel
  • 10. Coronary interventions: guide catheters, wires, balloons - Tornyos Dániel
  • 11. Pacemaker implantation - Ezer Péter (Szívcentrum)
  • 12. Pacemaker implantation - Ezer Péter (Szívcentrum)
  • 13. Electrophysiology - Kupó Péter
  • 14. Electrophysiology - Kupó Péter
  • 15. Right heart catheterization: PAH - Porpáczy Adél
  • 16. Right heart catheterization: PAH - Porpáczy Adél
  • 17. Valve insufficiencies - Schönfeld Kristóf
  • 18. Valve insufficiencies - Schönfeld Kristóf
  • 19. Chronic total occlusion (CTO) - Tornyos Dániel
  • 20. Chronic total occlusion (CTO) - Tornyos Dániel
  • 21. Bifurcation stenting, practice - Tornyos Dániel
  • 22. Bifurcation stenting, practice - Tornyos Dániel
  • 23. Test, practical exam - Kónyi Attila
  • 24. Test, practical exam - Tornyos Dániel

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

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Notes

Recommended literature

Morton L. Kern & Paul Sorajja & Michael Lim: Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 6th Edition 2015

Mauro Moscucci: Grossman & Baim's Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography, and Intervention, 8e 2013

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Two written tests during the semester. Mid-semester-grade. Two absences (4 hours) are tolerated during the semester at the seminars. More than two absences result in automatic exclusion.

Mid-term exams

1st written test: 5th week, 2nd written test: 12th week.

Making up for missed classes

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Exam topics/questions

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Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk