Learning objectives
Diagnosis and treatment of main rheumatic diseases
Course unit content
The main rheumatic diseases and related therapies will be treated
Full programme
• Classification of rheumatic diseases.
•Inflammatory arthropathies (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical aspects):
a) Rheumatoid arthritis
b) Seronegative spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasic arthropathy, Reiter syndrome)
• Sjogren syndrome.
• Connective tissue disease (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical aspects)
a) SLE
b) Scleroderma
c) Dermatopolymyositis
• Vasculitides (classification, clinical aspects, therapy):
a) Rheumatic polymyalgia
b) Temporal arteritis
• Osteoarthrosis (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical aspects, therapy)
• Microcrystalline arthropathies (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical aspects)
• Extra-articular rheumatisms: fibromyalgia (epidemiogy, etiopathogenesis, clinical aspects)
• Paget bone disease. Algodystrophic syndrome (neuroalgodystrophia).
Bibliography
S.Todesco: MALATTIE REUMATICHE. Ed. Mc Grow Hill
Teaching methods
Oral presentations supported by slides and interactive involvement of the student will be planned