The main objective of the course is to enable the students to identify the most common cardiovascular diseases and to become familiar with their main risk factors, clinical presentations, with the principal diagnostic approaches, and with the management of the patients. Subsequently, the course will also focus on other common medical diseases, outside the cardiovascular setting, but of potential interest for the pregnant woman. Where appropriate, the mechanisms, clinical presentations and consequences of cardiovascular and other diseases during pregnancy will be discussed.
At the end of the course, the student will achieve the following skills:
1) To be familiar with the principal cardiovascular disorders as well as with other medical diseases
2) To know the main signs and symptoms of these diseases
3) To know the main risk factors of these diseases
4) To know the main diagnostic and management approaches of these diseases
5) To be able to apply this knowledge to pregnant women when affected by these cardiovascular or general medical diseases