Medicine and surgery | University of Parma

Professor: Alfredo Antonio CHETTA
Academic discipline: Malattie dell'apparato respiratorio (MED/10)
Field: Clinica delle specialità medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity: Characterising

7 hours
of face-to-face activities

1 credits

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Integrated course unit module: RESPIRATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Learning objectives

The student must be able to correlate the pathophysiology with clinical symptoms of the main respiratory diseases: asthma, COPD, cancer, pneumonia, tuberculosis, respiratory failure.

Prerequisites

Background knowledge in Anatomy; Histology; General Pathology; Phisiology; Biochemistry and Microbiology is required.

Course unit content

Principal aim is student's achievement in learning the concepts on the mechanisms regulating respiratory function (nervous, mechanical ventilation, diffusion and perfusion lung); signs, symptoms and clinical and functional aspects that characterize the main respiratory diseases.

Full programme

Approach to the patients with disease of respiratory system; diagnostic procedures in respiratory sistem. Asthma; chronic bronchitis; emphysema; COPD; respiratory failure; pneumonia; bronchiectasis; pulmonary fibrosis; lung tumors (benign and malignant); pleural disorders; pneumothorax. Tobacco smoke and related diseases.

Bibliography

Harrison's. Principi di Medicina Interna, Mc Graw-Hill.
D.Olivieri, E.Marangio, A.Chetta. Lezioni di Pneumologia, UNI.NOVA Parma.

Teaching methods

Lectures and practical activities in class and in the various units, laboratories, bronchology, and clinics.

Assessment methods and criteria

Periodic tests and conclusive oral examination.

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