Heart valve disease
Heart valve disease module 1: epidemiology
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Understand the temporal and geographical trends in valve disease
- Understand the prevalence and incidence of valve disease
- Understand the causes of valve disease by position
- Be aware of variations in access to care
Heart valve disease module 2: pathophysiology
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Understand the basic structure of cardiac valves
- Understand the pathophysiology underlying the most common heart valve disorders including: - degenerative heart valve disease - myxomatous heart valve degeneration - rheumatic heart disease - functional heart valve disease - endocarditis - systemic inflammatory diseases
- Discuss novel therapeutic strategies and how these might relate to the underlying pathophysiology
Heart valve disease module 3: disease presentation
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Appreciate the variable and unpredictable natural history of valve lesions
- Recognise common symptoms of the individual valve lesions
- Be aware of physical signs commonly associated with valve lesions .
Heart valve disease module 4: diagnosis
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Understand the routine echocardiographic methods of quantifying valve disease
- Appreciate the additional information obtained from advanced echocardiographic techniques including stress and 3D
- Understand the complementary roles of computed tomography and cardiac magnetic imaging
- Recognise the cut-off values for grading valve disease
- Understand how imaging relates to criteria for surgical intervention
Heart valve disease module 5: medical therapies for treatment of valvular heart disease
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Understand the role of disease-modifying pharmacotherapy in valvular heart disease (VHD)
- Understand the role of supportive pharmacotherapy in VHD
- Recognise the indications for anticoagulation in VHD
- Be aware of the patient groups at high risk of developing infective endocarditis
- Realise the reasons for recent changes in international guidelines which restrict antibiotic prophylaxis of endocarditis
- Compare and contrast the differing recommendations for antibiotic prophylaxis of the European Society of Cardiology and the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Heart valve disease module 6: organisation of care for valve disease
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 0.5 CPD/CME credits
- Be aware of the limitations of detection
- Recognise the limitations in current surveillance systems
- Understand the limitations in non-specialist surgical centres
- Discuss the advantages of a specialist valve clinic
Heart valve disease module 7: anti-thrombotic therapy for valvular heart disease
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Introduce anticoagulation options in patients with native or prosthetic heart valves
- Review early antithrombotic therapy after valve surgery
- Understand the challenges of interrupting anticoagulation in valve patients
- Review anticoagulation options during pregnancy
Heart valve disease module 8: endocarditis
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Understand when infective endocarditis should be suspected
- Understand the criteria for diagnosis
- Understand the principles of management
- Understand the criteria for surgery.
Heart valve disease module 9: surgery for heart valve disease
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Recognise the indications for surgery with impaired LV function
- Know the indications for surgery in asymptomatic disease
- Understand the indications for surgery at the time of coexistent CABG
Heart valve disease module 10: transcatheter valve treatment and other future developments
Released 1 March 2016 Programme: Heart valve disease 1 CPD/CME credit
- Understand transcatheter approaches to the mitral and aortic valves
- Know patient selection for aortic valve devices
- Understand delivery approaches for replacement valves
- Recognise potential complications in such a procedure
- Understand mitral valve techniques
