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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 2022/2023
- Course ID
- SCB0211B
- Teacher
- Alessia Ciancio (Lecturer)
- Modular course
- 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
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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;
• Identify educational interventions aimed at people who must continue treatment at home or continue self-management of the disease.- Oggetto:
Course delivery
Frontal
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Learning assessment methods
lecture and videos
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Support activities
Video
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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
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Article
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- 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
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- Liver enzyme alteration: a guide for clinicians
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- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Year of publication:
- 2005
- Author:
- Edoardo G Giannini, Roberto Testa, Vincenzo Savarino
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- 172
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- 3
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- 367-379
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- Yes
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- Article
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- 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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- Yes
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