RHEUMATOLOGY
cod. 14329

Academic year 2016/17
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Landino ALLEGRI
Academic discipline
Nefrologia (MED/14)
Field
Clinica delle specialità medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
7 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT PATHOLOGIES

Learning objectives

Diagnosis and treatment of main rheumatic diseases

Prerequisites

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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

Assessment methods and criteria

quiz and oral exam

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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