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Endocrine, Metabolic and Gastroenteric Diseases - Module of Endocrinology
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Endocrinology
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Academic year 2024/2025
- Course ID
- SCB0211C
- Teacher
- Roberta Giordano (Lecturer)
- Year
- 3rd year
- Teaching period
- To be defined
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 3 (24 hours of lectures, 12 hours of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/13 - endocrinology
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- Endocrine, Metabolic and Gastroenteric Diseases (SCB0211)
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Sommario del corso
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Results of learning outcomes
After attending the course students will be expected to:
- Know the anatomical and physiological basis of the endocrine system and its modifications across the lifespan;
- Suspect the presence of the main endocrine disorders;
- Know the consequences of hormone excess or deficiency;
- Know advantages and risks of hormonal therapies;
- Discuss clinical cases focusing on clinical suspicion, diagnostic approach and therapeutic options.
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Program
- ENDOCRINE SYSTEM: definition, general anatomy and physiology, hormone synthesis and secretion, hormonal action and physiological function.
- HYPOTHALAMUS-PITUITARY AXES: clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of pituitary hormone excess (hyperprolactinemia, acromegaly, Cushing’s disease) and deficiency (hypopituitarism, diabetes insipidus), syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH).
THYROID GLAND: clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of hypo- and hyper-thyroidism, benign and malignant nodules. - PARATHYROID GLANDS: clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of primary and secondary hyper-parathyroidism, hypoparathyroidism; metabolic osteopathies (osteoporosis and osteomalacia).
- ADRENAL GLANDS: clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of Cushing’s syndrome, hyperaldosteronism, pheochromocytoma, Addison’s disease and congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
- GONADS: clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation and treatment of disorders of sexual differentiation, male and female hypogonadism, pathology of the menstrual cycle.
- GROWTH and PUBERTY DISORDERS: low and high stature, delayed and early puberty.
- MEN and APS: Multiple endocrine neoplasia and autoimmune-polyendocrine-syndromes.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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Notes
Students with DSA or disabilities are kindly requested to take note of the reception services and support services offered by the University of Turin, and in particular of the procedures required for exam support.
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