Program Overview

Program Overview

The program "Advances In Cardio-thoracic And Vascular Pathophysiology And Imaging" is a Dottorato (PhD) course offered by the university. The program has the following details:

• ID: 33697
• Academic year: 2025/2026
• Positions: 6
• Grant numbers: 3
• Number of scholarships financed by institutions: 0
• Number of scholarships financed by consortiums: 3

Educational Goals

The training objectives of the program concern the training and development of research in the cardiovascular and chest field with the acquisition of notions of ultrasound and advanced radiatrics. The contents of the program include:

• Cardiovascular anatomy and physiology
• Vascular, cardiac, and chest diseases
• Non-invasive and invasive diagnostics
• Notions of medical therapy and advanced surgical therapy methods
• Vegetative neuroeffectors mechanisms at the cardiovascular level
• Identification, lease, and biological role of protease inhibitors in the nervous and cardiovascular system
• Dopaminergic and cholinergic receptor systems in the cardiovascular system
• Plasma and tissue protease inhibitors at the level of the cardiovascular system
• Evaluation of myocardial vitality and transmurality of necrosis after myocardial infarction, through polyparametric techniques
• Evaluation of the stunned and hibernated myocardium
• Pulmonary and extra-spy micobacteriasis
• Neurotrophic receptors in the lung arteries and in the bronchiol-alveolar washing fluid in sarcoidosis
• Aerosolic use of Alfa Interferon in pulmonary tuberculosis and chronic bronchitis
• Ethiopathogenesis of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary histiocyties

Imaging Area

The training and development of research will be deepened in the cardio-vascular field, in the oncological and gastroenterological ones through advanced scintigraphy techniques (Spect and Pet). The contents of the program include:

• Radiopharmaceuticals for this area
• New image techniques
• Cardiological and gastro-enteric pathophysiology and neoplastic growth
• Pathophysiology and imaging updates through seminars held by Italian and foreign experts
• Creation of high-level global scientific training in doctorates

Professional Orientation

The experiences gained will have to lead doctorals to orient themselves in a professional way in the following areas:

• Evaluation of prostheses and vascular endoprotesis
• Evaluation of cardiac pathophysiology and relative diagnostic
• Evaluation of pneumological pathophysiology and its diagnostics
• Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures inherent in Toracic Surgery
• Pulmonary transplant
• Study of Artero-Venose pulmonary fistulas
• Study of the artero-venosis cardio-circulators
• Applications of scintigraphy in the diagnosis of the pathologies of the cardiovascular and systemic and pulmonary vascular system
• Application of computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (RM) in the diagnosis of the various cardiovascular and chest pathologies
• Translational laboratory activities

Evaluation

• Exam: Oral, scheduled for July 15, 2025, at 13:00, in the aula didattica prima clinica medica secondo piano, viale del policlinico 155
• Tests: Evaluation of qualifications, scheduled for July 8, 2025

Downloads

• DR Commissione giudicatrice 41° ciclo
• GRADUATORIA 41° CICLO - ammessi con borsa
• GRADUATORIA 41° CICLO - I scorrimento ammessi con borsa
• GRADUATORIA 41° CICLO - ammessi senza borsa
• DR approvazione atti 41° ciclo

Coordinator

Pasquale Pignatelli