The Master in Rare Arrhythmic Cardiac Diseases: Clinical, Diagnostic, and Therapeutic Aspects covers the topic of rare cardiovascular system diseases, with a low incidence in general population, and a significant impact on the patients and their families’ quality of life. Moreover, a significant number of rare cardiac diseases is characterized by the presence of ventricular arrhythmias subject to a risk of sudden death, especially by young patients.
For this reason, it is vitally important for doctors to have the right tools to identify the signs and symptoms of this group of cardiac diseases early on, as their prompt recognition has significant effects in terms of early diagnosis.
Therefore, the Master provides an overview on rare arrhythmia cardiac diseases, by describing the clinical and instrumental characteristics, the genetic bases, the diagnostic process and the current therapeutic thoughts in detail.
The Master in Rare Arrhythmic Cardiac Diseases: Clinical, Diagnostic, and Therapeutic Aspects provides theoretical-practical knowledge on Rare Arrhythmia Cardiomyopathies, in order to make students independent in managing those diseases, not so frequent in day-to-day clinical practice, and yet with a high health and social impact due to the involvement of young patients and their families.
These goals are reached through synchronous online lessons, which provide the theoretical fundamentals and present clinical cases.
The course is structured in lessons and presentations of clinical cases, supported by complete iconography of the different cardiology examinations that lead to the diagnosis. Possible treatment options will be discussed.
All the lessons will include a space to interact and debate with the other Master students. The course educational material will be supplied at the end of each lesson.
The Master in Rare Arrhythmic Cardiac Diseases: Clinical, Diagnostic, and Therapeutic Aspects is addressed to graduates in Medicine and Surgery, and to doctors specializing in Cardiology, Paediatrics, Sport Medicine, and Internal Medicine. At the end of the course, students will acquire in-depth knowledge of the diagnostic and therapeutic path, in patients with suspected rate arrhythmic cardiomyopathy, as well as skills in indicating and interpreting the appropriate instrumental exams and genetic tests.
The knowledge acquired by students during the course may be used both to assess patients diagnosed with rare arrhythmic cardiac diseases, and those with a familiarity for arrhythmic cardiac diseases and/or sudden death.
The Master in Rare Arrhythmia Cardiac Diseases: Clinical, Diagnostic, and Therapeutic Aspects prepares students on:
Module 1: ARRHYTHMIC CARDIOMYOPATIES: HISTORICAL ASPECTS AND DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS
- Evolution of physiopathological notions on Rare Arrhythmic cardiomyopathies over the years, and different classification approaches
- Discussion on the latest ESC guidelines on Arrhythmic Cardiomyopathies
Module 2: ARRHYTHMIC CARDIOMYOPATIES:
- Genetic and pathological bases of the disease
- Clinical aspects
- Multi-modal diagnostic in Arrhythmic Cardiomyopathies (ECG, echocardiogram, cardiac MRI, and angio-TC).
- Medical treatment aspects and AED indications
Module 3: ARRHYTHMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY, PECULIAR CLINICAL SCENARIOS
- Arrhythmic Cardiomyopathy in paediatric patients
- Pregnancies of patients with Arrhythmic Cardiomyopathy
- Diagnosis and management of heart failure in patients suffering from Arrhythmic Cardiomyopathy
Module 4: DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
- Dilated Cardiomyopathy diagnosis, based on current guidelines
- Dilated cardiomyopathy linked to known gene variants: DSP, LMNA, FLN, DES, TTN, RBM20
- Stratification of the arrhythmic risk in genetically determined Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Multi-modal imaging in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Module 5: NON-COMPACTION MYOCARDIUM
- Definition of the disease and diagnosis through different imaging methods
- Treatment and risk stratification in patients with non-compaction myocardium
Module 6: HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
- Genetic bases of sarcomeric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects
Module 7: FABRY’S DISEASE
- Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects in Fabry’s disease
Module 8: CARDIAC AMYLOIDOSIS
- Classification of cardiac amyloidosis
- Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects
Module 9: HEART INVOLVEMENT IN DYSTROPHINOPATHIES
- Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy
- Limb-girdle dystrophy and myotonic dystrophy
- Cardiomyopathy in mitochondrial diseases
Module 10: LONG QT SYNDROME. SHORT QT SYNDROME
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Management of paediatric patients
- Short QT syndrome: diagnosis and treatment
Module 11: BRUGADA SYNDROME
- Historical notions in the diagnosis of the Brugada Syndrome
- Electrocardiographic diagnosis and stratification of the arrhythmic risk
Module 12: CATECHOLAMINERGIC VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA
- Stress arrhythmia: diagnosis and clinical framework
- Genetic catecholaminergic arrhythmia: diagnosis and treatment
Module 12/A: CATECHOLAMINERGIC VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA
- Stress arrhythmia: diagnosis and clinical framework
- Genetic catecholaminergic arrhythmia: diagnosis and treatment
Module 12/B: RARE ARRHYTMIA CARDIOPATHIES AND SPORTS
- Rare arrhythmic cardiopathies and sport: an impossible combination?
- Workout indications in patients with rare arrhythmia cardiopathies
The general ranking of merit for the academic year 2024/25 will be published on the Italian page of this Master according to the timing provided in the Call.
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Lessons will be held once a month, with lessons on the morning (9:00 AM – 1:00 PM), following by discussions on clinical cases on the afternoon (2:00-4:00 PM).
Lessons will be held in synchronous mode.
Lessons will be recorded and made available to students.
There will be an allotted space at the end of each lesson, and at the end of each clinical case, to ask the relevant questions to the lecturers.