MEDICAL SPECIALITY SUBJECTS (M.Ch)
Cardiothoracic Surgery
POST GRADUATE DEGREE STANDARD
PAPER -I CODE :123

I. BASIC SCIENCES & THORACIC SURGERY :
1. A) APPLIED ANATOMY
- Anatomy & Development of Chest wall
- Anatomy & Development of Diaphragm.
- Anatomy & Development of Pleura &Lung
- Anatomy of Mediastinum
- Developmental Anomalies of Hearts & Great Vessels

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B) APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
- Pulmonary function Test
- Physiology of Perfusion
- Physiology of Hypothermia
- Acid-Base Balance
- Physiology of Oesophagus & Movements

C) APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY
- Post operative infection
- Aids in Cardio thoracic surgery
- Pulmonary Tuber culosis
- Rheumatic Fever
- Endo Carditis
- Infections of Pleura

D) APPLIED PATHOLOGY
- Pathology of Chestwall tumours
- Mediastinal tumours
- Pathology of pleural tumours
- Pathology of Cancer lung
- Pathology of Cancer oesophagus
- Pathology of Bronchiectasis
- Pathology of Tumors of the Heart

2) THORACIC SURGERY :
- Anaesthesia in Cardio thoracic Surgery
- Post Operative Management in Cardio thoracic
Surgery
- Post Opertative Complications

3) LUNG :
- Anomalies in lung
- Tumours
- Pulmonary Tuberculosis
- Bronchiectasis
- Surgery & Complications of lung

4) PLEURA :
- Pleural Tumours
- Pleural Infection
- Empyema

5) OESOPHAGUS :
- Congenital Anomalies
- Oesophageal Cancers
- Stricture Oesophagus
- Achalasia Cadia
- Surgeries in Oesophagus & Its complication

6) MEDIASTINUM :
- Infections
- Tumours in Mediastinum
- Thymus tumours

7) PERICARDIUM :
- Tumour
- Infections

PAPER-II
CADIO VASCULAR SURGERY
1) EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION :
- Hypothermia
- Complications in CPBP
- Deep Hypothermia & Circulatory Arrest
- Assisted Circulation

2) CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES - CLINICAL SIGNS - SURGERY & COMPLICATIONS :
- Atrial Septal defects
- Ventricular Septal defects
- AV Canal Defects
- Tetralogy of Fallots
- Trasposition of great vessels
- Truncus
- Congenital Valvular Lesions
- PDA & Coarctations

3) VALVULAR HEART DISEASE-SURGERY & COMPLICATION :
- Diseases of Mitral Valve
- Diseases of Aortic Valve
- Diseases of Tricuspid & pulmonary valve

4) TUMOURS OF HEARTS

5) CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE & ITS COMPLICATION :
- Coronary anatomy
- Coronary Aterosclerotic phenomena
- Coronary artery Byepass surgery
- LV aneurysm

6) AORTIC SURGERY :
- Aortic Aneurysms
- Dissecting aneurysm
- Vascular Ring

7) RECENT ADVANCES :
- Foetal Heart Surgery
- Warm Heart Surgery
- Transplantation
- Heart & lung
- Surgery for Arrythmias
- Recent Advance in coronary byepass surgery