Vascular Surgery

Part 1 Basic science components of vascular disorders: embryology and development of the vascular system; molecular biology; extracellar matrix; vascular wall physiology; wound healing; interventional techniques to accelerate healing - endothelial seeding; interventioanal techniques to accelerate healing - gene therapy; haemostasis and coagualtion. Part 2 Vascular pathology and physiology: molecular aspects of artherosclerosis; localization of artherosclerosis leisons; acute arterial occlusion from embolic disease; catheter-based approached to the treatment of atheroembolic disease; pathogenesis of arterial fibrodysplasia; physiology of vasopastic disorders; Buerger's disease; ergotism; artertis; adventitial cystic disease; entrapment syndromes; intimal hyperplasia; thoracic outlet syndrome; aneurysmal disease; pathophysiology, haemodynamics and compliations of venous disease; physiologic changes in lymphatic dysfunction; physiologic changes in visceral ishchemia; natural history of atherosclerosis in the lower extremity, cartoid and coronary circulations; neurologic basis for symphathetically maintained pain - causalgia and reflex sympathetic distrophy; compartment syndromes physiology; physiology of reperfusion injuries; cerebral and spinal cord ischemia - pathophysiology of cerebral ischemia, pathophysiology of spinal cord ischemia; mechanisms of vasculogenic impotence; portal hypertension. Part 3 Noninvasive vascular diagnostics: physiologic basis of haemodynamic measurement; spectral analysis; ultrasound imaging; radionuclide scanning; computer tomography; magnetic resonance imaging. Part 4 Invasive vascular diagnostics: angiography; intravascular ultrasound; angioscopy in peripheral vascular surgery. Part 5 Medical management: atherosclerosis prevention and risk factor modification; pharmacologic intervention - thrombolytic therapy; pharmacologic intervention - vasodilation therapy and rheologc agents; pharmacologic intervention - lipid-lowering agents. Part 6 Perioperative monitoring and management: haemodynamic monitoring; use of transesophageal echo; intraoperative monitoring of coagulation parameters; trandfusion therapy; management of intraoperative cardiac arrhythmias; infections and antibiotics in vascular surgery. Part 7 Statistics for vascular surgeons.