II. Learning unit: Valvular heart diseases and their treatment

Objectives and competencies

In this curriculum students may have the opportunity to learn anatomy function and diseases affecting heart valves . Topics such as diagnosis and basic treatment modalities of valvular heart diseases are discussed in multidisciplinary environment. Student may review topics anatomy of heart valves and mechanism of their function in the anatomic chapter. Pathological chapter reviews inflammatory disorders of the endo-, myo- and pericardium. Rheumatic fever, valvular heart defects, and pathogens of bacterial endocarditis are discussed in this chapter. The radiology chapter introduces imaging modalities and studies of the valvular hear disease and the role of echocardiography CAT scan and MRI in valvular heart diseases. Clinical relevancies cover diagnosis symptomatology and treatment modalities of the aortic stenosis, regurgitation, in an environment enriched with illustrations photos and tables. 

II./1.: Anatomy of heart valves

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The chapter structure

• II./1.1.: The fibrous skeleton of the heart (annulus fibrosus)

• II./1.2.: The structure of the cuspidal valves

  • II./1.2.1.: General characteristics of the cuspidal valves

  • II./1.2.2.: Tricuspid valve, right atrioventricular valve

  • II./1.2.3.: Bicuspid valve, mitral valve or left atrioventricular valve

• II./1.3.: The structure of the semilunar (crescent or half-moon shaped) valves

  • II./1.3.1.: General characteristics of the semilunar valves

  • II./1.3.2.: Pulmonary trunk valve

  • II./1.3.3.: Aortic valve

References

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Vígh: Szisztémás anatómia. Rendszeres orvosi bonctan. Alliter Bp. 2005.

Sadler: Langman Orvosi embryológia – Medicina 1999.

Moore, Persaud: The Developing Human - Clinically Oriented Embryology (8th edition)

Carpentier A. Cardiac valve surgery - the "French correction". J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1983 ;86(3):323-37.