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Single cycle degree course 6 years in
Medicine and surgery
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Medicine and Surgery

NEPHROLOGY (B)
cod. 1002388

Academic year 2018/19
3° year of course - Second semester
Professors
Academic discipline
Nefrologia (MED/14)
Field
Clinica delle specialità medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
21 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN
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Integrated course unit module: KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT PATHOLOGIES

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Learning objectives

The student, at the end of the course, by integrating the his/her background of anatomy, biochemistry, and physiology, should be able to demonstrate full knowledge of kidney diseases

Prerequisites

Kidney, heart, lung, liver anatomy and physiology. Heart Failure. Diabetes mellitus.

Course unit content

The Nephrology course is part of the integrated course on kidney and urinary tract diseases. The course gives the student the basic elements in order to understand etiology, pathogenesis, clinical aspects, diagnosis and therapy of the main kidney diseases, including the different modalities of renal replacement therapies (hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, renal transplantation)

Full programme

- Diagnostic approach to the main nephrological syndromes (proteinuria, hematuria, edema, nephrotic and nephritic syndrome
- Serum creatinine, BUN, clearance, GFR measured, calculated and estimated
- Hypo- and hypernatremia
- Hypo- and hyperkalemia
- Acid-base alterations
- Diuretics: pharmacolgy and use in acute and chronic kidney disease, heart failure, liver failure
- Nephroprotection
- Nutrition in chronic kideny disease
- Glomerulonephritides: primary and secondary
The Kidney in systemic diseases (diabetes mellitus, herat failure, SLE, vasculitides, trombothic microangiopathies, multiple myloma, amyloidosis
- Acute and chronic tubulointerstitial diseases
- Cystic diseases
- Congenital kidney diseases
- Acute kidney injury
- Chronic kidney disease
- Essential and secondary hypertension
- Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
- Renal transplantation

Bibliography

Gilbert SJ, Weiner DE. National Kidney Foundation's Primer on Kidney Diseases. Seventh Edition. 2018. Elsevier

Teaching methods

lectures, seminars, short term internship in nephrology wards

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exhamination

Other information

the slides of the lectures and seminars will be made available online

2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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