Cardiac Surgery II

Semester: 2nd    
Type: Compulsory
ECTS: 4
Distance learning: 75%

Learning objectives:
After successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- understand the basic cardiac and circulatory physiology
- connect cardiac pathophysiology with clinical manifestations of cardiac disease
- be able to evaluate the main findings of the laboratory exams in cardiology
- understand the main indications that guide surgical management of various cardiac diseases
- familiarize with the basic cardiac surgical techniques   

Syllabus:
The course syllabus is the following:
The course syllabus is the following:
Surgical treatment of heart failure
Heart transplantation
Cardiac trauma
Mechanical complications of myocardial infarction
Congenital heart disease
Thoracoabdominal aneurysms
Beating heart surgery
Transcatheter valve replacement
Surgery of arrhythmias
Cardiac tumors
Major studies in cardiac surgery.

Lecturers:
Anastasiadis Kyriakos, Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Foroulis, Christophoros Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Tagarakis Georgios, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Antonitsis Polychronis, Assoc. Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Karapanagiotidis Georgios, Assoc. Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Voucharas Christos, Ass. Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Argyriadou Eleni, Professor of Anesthesiology