Unit name | Heart and Valve Disease |
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Unit code | SOCSM0005 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Saadeh Suleiman |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Medical School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit aims to deliver a comprehensive coverage of key topics related to adult cardiac and valve disease, including diagnosis of disorders and integration of pathophysiology with clinical management. Topics to be covered include: the clinical problem, patho-biology, genomics, epidemiology, patient assessment (from GP to clinic), (ECG, angiogram to imaging, Interventions and treatments, complications). Ongoing pre-clinical and translational research examples (including the use of stem cells, novel clinical pharmacology approaches, micro-RNAs and gene therapy) will be presented to illustrate the current understanding and progress of in this treatment of this clinical problem. The current pre-clinical models that can be utilized to assess the effectiveness of newly proposed approaches will be outlined.
Students successfully completing this module will be able to:
Coursework (contributing a total of 60% to the unit) consisting of:
Please note that students will be given formative feedback on all coursework assessment.
Written exams (contributing a total of 40% to the unit) consisting of:
Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (2007) by Libby. Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier. Complete text available online (subscription)
Harrison's Cardiovascular Medicine (2010) by Joseph Loscalzo. Publisher: McGraw-Hill, USA. ISBN 0071702911 / 9780071702911 (also available as eBook)