cardiac curriculum
The cardiac curriculum is one of our curriculum articles and aims to be a collection of articles that represent the core cardiac knowledge.
Definition
Topics pertaining to the heart and pericardium, but excluding the mediastinum (see: chest curriculum) and great vessels (see: vascular curriculum).
Anatomy
An understanding of the anatomy of relevant structures is essential. Core anatomical topics include:
Radiological examinations
The heart is imaged with all modalities.
- chest x-ray (CXR)
- ultrasound
- echocardiography
- CT
- MRI
- nuclear medicine
- scintigraphy
- SPECT
- PET
Pathology
Heart
- cardiac contusion
- cardiomyopathy
- myocardial infarction
- right ventricular dysplasia
- tumors
- primary cardiac tumors
- benign
- cardiac myxoma
- cardiac rhabdomyoma
- cardiac papillary fibroelastoma
- benign
- malignant
- secondary cardiac tumors (cardiac metastases)
- primary cardiac tumors
- valvular heart disease
- ventricular aneurysm
Coronary arteries
Pericardium
Miscellaneous
- coronary artery bypass graft
- coronary artery stent
- cardiac defibrillator
- cardiac pacemaker
- prosthetic heart valve
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Curricula
- curriculum
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- cardiac curriculum
- central nervous system curriculum
- chest curriculum
- gastrointestinal curriculum
- gynecology curriculum
- head and neck curriculum
- hepatobiliary curriculum
- intervention curriculum
- musculoskeletal curriculum
- obstetric curriculum
- pediatric curriculum
- post-mortem and forensic curriculum
- urogenital curriculum
- vascular curriculum
- medical student curriculum
- pathology curriculum
- general pathology
- systemic pathology
- pathology of the vascular system
- cardiac pathology
- pathology of the hematological and lymphatic systems
- pathology of the lung and pleura
- pathology of the head and neck
- pathology of the gastrointestinal system
- pathology of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas
- pathology of the kidney and urinary tract
- pathology of the male genital system
- pathology of the female genital system
- pathology of the breast
- pathology of the endocrine system
- pathology of the skin
- pathology of the musculoskeletal system and soft tissues
- pathology of the nervous system
- pathology of the ocular system
- physics curriculum
- radiography curriculum
- general radiography curriculum
- CT curriculum
- MRI
- ultrasound
- nuclear medicine
- radiation therapy
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