Cardio Topic List

Question 1

Definition and diagnosis of hypertension.
Aortic stenosis.

Question 2

Ischemic heart disease (risk factors, manifestations, diagnosis).
Rehabilitation in cardiology.

Question 3

Heart failure (common causes, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, stages).

Diagnosis and treatment of secondary hypertension.

Question 4

Stable angina pectoris, vasospastic angina (diagnosis and treatment).
Pulmonary hypertension.

Question 5

Acute coronary syndrome (unstable angina, NSTEMI, STEMI): diagnosis, algorithms of the
treatment.

Myocarditis and rheumatic fever.

Question 6

Pharmaceutical, interventional and surgical treatment options of acute coronary syndrome.
Infective endocarditis.

Question 7

Primary and secondary prevention of myocardial infarction.
Mitral insufficiency.

Question 8

Early and late complications of myocardial infarction.
Mitral stenosis

Question 9

Differential diagnosis of chest pain.
Pacemaker treatment, CRT, ICD.

Question 10

Heart failure (pharmaceutical treatment, heart transplant, implantable devices: ICD, CRT, LVAD).

Toxic heart deteriorations, primary heart tumors.

Question 11

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Atherosclerosis (risk factors, pathophysiology, risk assessment, treatment), target organ
manifestations.

Question 12

Sudden cardiac death, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (BLS, ALS).
Acute aortic syndromes, aortic aneurysm.

Question 13

Pharmaceutical treatment of arrhythmias.
Heart disease in pregnancy

Question 14

Aortic insufficiency.
Non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical treatment of hypertension.

Question 15

Congenital heart diseases.
Risk factors of ischemic heart disease and the treatment of risk factors.

Question 16

Non-invasive cardiological examinations.
Congenital heart diseases with shunt.

Question 17

Acute left ventricular failure, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock (diagnosis, common causes,
treatment).
Diabetic angiopathy, „diabetic leg”.

Question 18

Cardiomyopathies.
Investigation of the microcirculation. Raynaud-syndrome.

Question 19

Supraventricular arrhythmias (classification, treatment).
Obliterative arterial disease of the lower limbs (risk factors, stages, diagnosis)

Question 20

Ventricular arrhythmias (classification, treatment).
Tricuspid and pulmonary valve diseases.

Question 21

Atrial fibrillation, (pathophysiology, causes, diagnosis – manifestations, thromboembolic risk
assessment).
Buerger’s disease, Great vessel vasculitis.

Question 22

Acute and long-term treatment of atrial fibrillation.
Pericardial diseases, forms of pericarditis.

Question 23

Abnormal impulse generation and abnormal impulse conduction (basic mechanisms, sick sinus
syndrome, SA and AV block), clinical relevance.

Anti-thrombocyte-aggregation therapy, anticoagulant and thrombolytic treatment.

Question 24

Syncope (causes, differential diagnosis).
Obliterative arterial disease of the lower limbs (treatment forms: conservative, interventional
and surgical).

Question 25

Invasive electrophysiological examination, catheter ablation.
Primary and secondary prevention in cardiology and angiology