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Endocrine, Metabolic and Gastroenteric Diseases - Module of Gastroenterology
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Endocrine, Metabolic and Gastroenteric Diseases - Module of Gastroenterology
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- SCB0211B
- Teacher
- Alessia Ciancio (Lecturer)
- Year
- 3rd year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 3 (24 hours of lectures, 12 of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/12 - gastroenterology
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Practice test
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- Endocrine, Metabolic and Gastroenteric Diseases (SCB0211)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The means proposed for this purpose include:
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The knowledge of the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in the individual diseases;
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The collection of anamnestic data structured by problems;
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The patient's physical signs;
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The knowledge of the biotechnological and instrumental resources that can be used;
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The critical evaluation and the ability to correlate clinical symptoms, physical signs and functional alterations with pathological lesions, interpreting their production mechanisms and understanding their clinical significance;
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The concept of therapy.
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Results of learning outcomes
After attending the course students must:
• Knowledge of the anatomical and physiological basis of the hepatic system;
• Suspect the presence of acute or chronic liver disease;
• Activate decision-making processes based on patient conditions, altered parameter values, laboratory reports and examinations;
• Manage the care of patients with liver diseases, and manage the follow-up of patients with chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
• Discuss clinical cases focusing on clinical suspicion, diagnostic approach and therapeutic options;
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Program
- Natural history of liver diseases
- Chronic liver disease as a reversible disease
- Meaning of main serological and virological markers
- Diagnostic and therapeutic program of the patient with chronic liver diseases
- Suspected signs and typical imaging of cirrhosis
- Complications of cirrhosis: meaning, clinical approach, prognosis and counseling
- Approach to clinical emergencies in liver cirrhosis
- Liver Diseases and SARS.CoV2 infection
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Course delivery
Frontal
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Learning assessment methods
lecture and videos
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Support activities
Video
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Article
- Title:
- Fibrosis in chronic liver diseases: diagnosis and management
- Journal title:
- Journal of Hepatology
- Year of publication:
- 2005
- Author:
- Massimo Pinzani, Krista Rombouts, Stefano Colagrande
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 1
- Notes:
- Supplement
- Start, end page:
- S22-S36
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- Required:
- Yes
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- Article
- Title:
- Liver enzyme alteration: a guide for clinicians
- Journal title:
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Year of publication:
- 2005
- Author:
- Edoardo G Giannini, Roberto Testa, Vincenzo Savarino
- Volume:
- 172
- Issue:
- 3
- Start, end page:
- 367-379
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- Required:
- Yes
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- Article
- Title:
- Interrelationship Between Coronavirus Infection and Liver Disease
- Journal title:
- Clinical Liver Disease
- Year of publication:
- 2020
- Author:
- Esperance A. K. Schaefer, Ashwini Arvind, Patricia P. Bloom, Raymond T. Chung
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 5
- Start, end page:
- 175-180
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- Required:
- Yes
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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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