The Cardiovascular System : Basic & Clinical

THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM : BASIC

  & CLINICAL

1. Overview of the cardiovascular

4. Vascular histology and smooth

system.

muscle cell ultrastructure.

Anatomy and Histology

Blood and Body Fluids

2. Gross anatomy and histology

5. Constituents of blood.

of the heart.

6. Erythropoiesis, haemoglobin

3. Vascular anatomy.

and anaemia.

7. Haemostasis and thrombosis.

28. The control of blood volume.

8. Blood groups and transfusions.

29. Cardiovascular effects of exercise.

30. Shock and haemorrhage.

Biochemistry & Cellular Physiology

Pathology and Therapeutics

9. Membrane potential,ion channels

and pumps.

31. Risk factors for cardiovascular

10. Electrophysiology of cardiac muscle

disease.

and origin of the heart beat.

32. Clinical measurement of cardiac

11. Excitation-contraction coupling in

and vascular function.

cardiac muscle cells.

33. Hyperlipidaemias.

12. Vascular smooth muscle excitation-

34. Atherosclerosis.

contraction coupling.

35. Treatment of hypertension.

36. Mechanisms of primary

Form and Function

hypertension.

37. Stable and variant angina.

13. Cardiac cycle.

38. Unstable angina and non-ST

14. Control of cardiac output and

segment elevation myocardial

starlings Law of the Heart. infarction.

15. Electrical conduction system

39. Pharmacological management of

in the heart. stable and variant angina.

16. The electrocardiogram.

40. Revascularization.

17. Haemodynamics.

41. Pathophysiology of acute myocardial

18. Blood pressure and flow in

infarction.

the arteries and arterioles.

42. Clinical aspects of acute myocardial

19. The microcirculation and

infarction.

lymphatic system.

43. Anticoagulants and thrombolytics.

20. Fluid filtration in the

44. Chronic heart failure.

microcirculation.

45. Treatment of chronic heart failure.

21. The venous system.

46. Mechanisms of arrhythmia.

22. Local control of blood flow.

47. Pharmacological treatment of

23. Regulation of the vasculature

arrhythmias.

by the endothelium.

48. Specific arrhythmias.

24. The coronary, skeletal muscle,

49. Diseases of the aortic valve.

cutaneous and cerebral circulation.

50. Diseases of the mitral valve.

25. The pulmonary and fetal circulations.

51. Congenital heart disease.

Integration and Regulation

52. Emerging trends in cardiovascular

26. Cardiovascular reflexes.

medicine.

27. Autonomic control of the

cardiovascular system.