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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 2021/2022
- Course ID
- SCB0220A
- Teacher
- Prof. Dario Roccatello (Coordinator)
- Modular course
- Year
- 4th year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 3
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/14 - nefrologia
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Oral
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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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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
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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
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Nephrology & Hypertension, 2e Edgar V. Lerma, Mitchell H. Rosner, Mark A. Perazella (available for UNITO student via BiblioPASS)
- Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology Fourth Edition Three-Volume Pack Chief Editor Neil N. Turner, Edited by Neil N. Turner, Norbert Lameire, David J. Goldsmith, Christopher G. Winearls, Jonathan Himmelfarb, and Giuseppe Remuzz
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