Clinical cardiology

Course curriculum

• Outpatient management of a patient with ischemic disease according to clinical guidelines
• Stable forms of coronary artery disease. Clinical presentation of coronary artery disease. Risk assessment in CAD
• Diagnostic algorithm for verifying the diagnosis of CHD according to the new clinical guidelines. Lifestyle modification measures in patients with CHD
• Fundamentals of basic therapy for coronary artery disease
• Strategy for CHD in specific clinical situations
• Surgical treatment, rehabilitation, and outpatient dispensary follow-up in CHD
• Mastermind: clinical case analysis of differential diagnosis of CAD, treatment selection, management tactics at the outpatient stage
• Arterial hypertension in light of the updated clinical guidelines
• Definition of hypertension, main classifications and stratification scales
• Methods of measuring arterial blood pressure and specific types of hypertension
• Examination to verify the diagnosis of arterial hypertension
• Treatment strategy: when, to whom, and what to prescribe
• Selected clinical situations, including resistant arterial hypertension and ways to overcome it
• Features of dispensary follow-up of patients with arterial hypertension at the outpatient stage
• Hypertensive crisis
• Hypertension in pregnant women
• Dyslipidemia. Atherosclerosis
• Review of the key positions of the clinical guidelines of the European and Russian societies of cardiology. Scales for risk stratification
• Diagnosis of dyslipidemia. Lifestyle modification measures and their impact on lipid profile parameters
• Application of statins for the treatment of dyslipidemia
• Statin intolerance and the main adverse events with their use (management)
• Other lipid-lowering agents
• Familial hypercholesterolemia: epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment
• Mastermind: clinical case of dyslipidemia therapy selection
• Main supraventricular rhythm disturbances in the cardiologist's outpatient practice
• Sinus tachycardia. Forms. Examination. Management strategy for a patient with sinus tachycardia
• Atrial fibrillation. Classification, pathophysiology
• Examination of the patient to verify the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation
• Anticoagulant therapy in atrial fibrillation
• Rhythm and rate control in atrial fibrillation
• Other supraventricular arrhythmias. Overview
• Mastermind - analysis of a patient with cardiac rhythm disorder - diagnosis, treatment
• Chronic heart failure
• Definition of CHF. General information on the epidemiology of CHF worldwide and in the Russian Federation. Etiology of CHF
• Classifications of CHF, formulation of the clinical diagnosis of CHF. Statistical accounting of patients with CHF in the outpatient service
• Clinical presentation of CHF with analysis of a differential diagnosis example of edema syndrome in a pregnant woman
• Diagnosis of chronic heart failure (CHF)
• Drug therapy of CHF
• Acute decompensation of CHF
• Surgical treatment of CHF
• Rehabilitation in CHF
• Dispensary follow-up in CHF in the outpatient service