The objectives of this course consist in a coordinate overview of the benefits of the integration of technological and medical-surgical aspects when dealing with cardiovascular diseases. In particular, this integration could result in an increased efficacy in terms of disease diagnosis, decision-making and surgical planning. In detail, it will be shown how the coupling of cardiovascular imaging and computational fluid dynamics methods allows a detailed non-invasive patient-specific hemodynamic characterization. Moreover, it will be shown how cardiac surgeons can benefit from the detailed hemodynamic and morphometric quantitative analysis deriving from computational methods. This information has the potential to help the decision making and allow a robust planning of the therapeutic strategies through the ability to predict the different outcomes.

Basic knowledge of the physiology and biomechanics of the cardiovascular system. Basic knowledge of the physical principles underling the imaging modalities used in cardiovascular medicine.

- Computational medicine. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics - Computational medicine. Verification & Validation, Uncertainty Quantification - Quantitative description of arterial hemodynamics - Medical imaging processing in cardiovascular applications - Mitral valve replacement: a clinical view - Patient specific modeling of coronary artery hemodynamics - Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics on cardiovascular devices

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Presentazione report scritto - Sviluppo di project work in team

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