Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with the ability of relief, recognition and interpretation of signs and symptoms (anamnestic and objectives) and classification of the disease in question. It is also proposed to provide expertise for the establishment of a more effective communication with the patient and his family,
Full programme
Classification of rheumatic diseases. Inflammatory arthropathy: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy: rheumatoid arthritis, seronegative arthritis spondylo (ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's syndrome). - The connective tissue: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy, SLE, scleroderma, vasculitis dermatopolymyositis: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapists: polymyalgia rheumatica, temporal arteritis. Osteoarthritis: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy. - Microcrystalline arthropathies: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy. - Extra-articular rheumatism: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy. - Fibromyalgia: clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy. Osteoporosis Paget's disease of bone syndrome algodistrofica (neuroalgodistrofia). - The treatment of rheumatic diseases: NSAIDs, Steroids, Therapies skiing, Condrometabolici
Bibliography
MALATTIE REUMATICHE" : Autore: S. Todesco – Ed. Mc Grow Hill -
Teaching methods
Lectures will be carried out with the aid of oral presentations, slides and interactive involvement of the student according to the timetable defined at the beginning of academic year
Assessment methods and criteria
The evaluation of the preparation of the student will be based on oral exams and will focus on the content of the topics defined by the educational program