Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship
Lectures
We are pleased to offer a robust offering of specially curated group of lectures on topics in advanced heart failure, left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and cardiac transplantation in addition to dedicated intensive care unit management topics, including:
Heart Failure Lectures
- Myocarditis
- Infiltrative cardiomyopathies
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF)
- Outpatient management of heart failure
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Heart failure secondary to cancer chemotherapy
- Heart failure and congenital heart disease
- Functional assessment of heart failure
- ICD/CRT
- Heart failure and arrhythmias
- Mechanical support : ECMO/IABP/percutaneous VAD
- End of life: Palliative care /hospice
- Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF)
- Right ventricle (RV) failure
- Revascularization for acute and chronic heart failure
- CT/MRI use in heart failure
- Heart failure guidelines
- Surgical management of heart failure
LVAD Lectures
- LVAD selection criteria
- Echocardiographic evaluation of LVAD
- Perioperative care of the VAD patient and LVAD operation
- Anesthesia essentials pre LVAD /TX
- LVAD operation system
- Psychosocial evaluation pre LVAD
Transplant Lectures
- Immunosuppression
- Infectious workup/opportunistic infections
- Acute cellular and antibody-mediated rejection
- Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV)
- Transplant immunology
- Transplant pathology