Angiology and Vascular Surgery

Code:

MI018

Acronym:

MI018

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2012/2013 - SP

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Surgery Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	40	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina 2007	6	-	3	32	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Acquisition of competences to accomplish the tasks related to semiology, pathology and essential nosologic clinical entities (frequent and/or relevant) to the speciality of Angiology and Vascular Surgery.

Program

• Peripheral occlusive atherosclerotic disease - Clinical Approach, Signs and Symptoms
• Physical examination: palpation of arterial pulses, Hemodynamics - evaluation of pressures and Doppler indices - Understanding acute and chronic critical limb ischemia - Therapeutics.
• Expansive Atherosclerotic disease - Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - Clinic: Symptoms and signs - objective examination - abdominal palpation, Doppler echocardiography, CT, MRI, and Digital Angiography Seldinger; conventional therapy and endovascular (EVAR).
• Extracranial cerebrovascular disease - Clinical Approach, symptoms and signs - Understanding TIA, laughing and stroke - Definition of carotid stenosis with prophylactic indication for surgery - Endarteriectomy carotid angioplasty and stent placement.
• Value of Doppler echocardiography in noninvasive diagnosis, CT and MRI.
• Chronic venous disease of lower limbs - symptoms and signs.
• Venous Doppler echocardiography and its importance in the diagnosis of venous insufficiency of the lower limbs phlebography.
• Medical therapy and surgical and endovascular venous classical-endolaser and radio.
• Understanding the superficial and deep thrombophlebitis of the limbs. Diagnosis and medical and surgical therapy.

Mandatory literature

HALLETT John W. Jr. ; COMPREHENSIVE VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY, Mosby Elsevier, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-323-05726-4
SOUSA João Carvalho de; ATEROTROMBOSE, 2000. ISBN: 151 619/00
HALLET JR John W.; HANDBOOOK OF PATIENT CARE IN VASCULAR DISEASES, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001. ISBN: 0-7817-2614-X

Complementary Bibliography

CRONENWETT Jack L.; VASCULAR SURGERY, Saunders Elsevier, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4160-5223-4
PEREIRA C. Alves; CIRURGIA : PATOLOGIA E CLÍNICA, McGraw-Hill de Portugal, 1999. ISBN: 972-8298-89-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Clinical training, practical sessions and seminars. The clinical training takes place at Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department at the Hospital de São João, which implies a full integration in the assistance staff and it’s developed in the different areas of the Service: Wards (daily visits at 8h00), Ambulatory, Operating Theatre, Internship and Emergency (once a week). It concerns supervised clinical practice: ratio tutor/students of 1/1 or 1/2. It also includes the participation in the department sessions and collaboration in research activities (lines of research that exist in the Service). The clinical training takes place until 14h00.
The practical Sessions of the Operating Theatre, Seminars and Emergency Room will take place in the morning with the exception of the Emergency room, which will take place until 20h00.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	0,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Continuous Assessment calculated by: Attendance, performance in learning, demonstration of knowledge and attitudes, clinical and human contact performance. The classification to the approval is from a scale of 0 to 20.