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Nephrology, rheumatology and clinical immunology - Module of Nephrology
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Nephrology, rheumatology and clinical immunology - Module of Nephrology
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- SCB0220A
- Teacher
- Dario Roccatello (Coordinator)
- Year
- 4th year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 3 (24 hours of lectures, 12 hours of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/14 - nephrology
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Oral
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- Nephrology, rheumatology and clinical immunology (SCB0220)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
This course will provide a foundation in knowledge and skills necessary for medical students to recognize the most important medical problems and to construct clinical reasoning models in the field of nephrology.- Oggetto:
Results of learning outcomes
Demonstrate knowledge, clinical and technical skills and decision-making capabilities pertinent to the management of patients with medical problems in the field of nephrology
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Program
- Assessment of Glomerular Filtration Rate.
- Urinalysis.
- Disorders of Sodium and Potassium Metabolism.
- Approach to Acid-Base Disorders.
- Glomerular Clinicopathologic Syndromes.
- Minimal Change Disease.
- Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis.
- Membranous Nephropathy.
- Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy.
- Goodpasture Syndrome and Other Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Diseases.
- Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis.
- Renal involvement in systemic vasculitis (granulomatosis with polyangiitis, microscopic polyangiitis and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis).
- Henoch-Schönlein Purpura Nephritis (IgA vasculitis).
- Lupus Nephritis.
- Pathogenesis, Pathophysiology, and Treatment of Diabetic Nephropathy.
- Dysproteinemias related disorders.
- Amyloidosis.
- Thrombotic Microangiopathies and aPL Nephropathy.
- The Kidney in Cancers.
- Acute Kidney Injury.
- Polycystic and Other Cystic Kidney Diseases and Nephronophthisis and Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease.
- Alport Syndrome and Related Disorders.
- Fabry Disease.
- Chronic Tubulointerstitial Disease.
- Nephrolithiasis.
- Urinary Tract Infection and Pyelonephritis.
- Pregnancy in immunomediated and kidney diseases.
- Chronic Kidney Disease and its Therapy.
- Kidney Replacement Therapies: Dialysis and Transplantation.
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Course delivery
Lectures in presence, supported/ supplemented by recorded lectures that the students can access online through the platform Moodle
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Learning assessment methods
Oral exam.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Nephrology & Hypertension
- Year of publication:
- 2018
- Publisher:
- McGraw Hill
- Author:
- Edgar V. Lerma, Mitchell H. Rosner, Mark A. Perazella
- ISBN
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- Required:
- Yes
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- Book
- Title:
- Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology: Three-Volume Pack (4 edn)
- Year of publication:
- 2019
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Author:
- Neil N. Turner (ed.), Neil N. Turner (ed.), Norbert Lameire (ed.), David J. Goldsmith (ed.), Christopher G. Winearls (ed.), Jonathan Himmelfarb (ed.), Giuseppe Remuzzi (ed.)
- ISBN
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- Required:
- Yes
- Enroll
- Closed
- Enrollment opening date
- 01/07/2022 at 00:00
- Enrollment closing date
- 30/11/2022 at 23:55
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