RHEUMATOLOGY
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Acquire knowledge on themain inflammatory and degenerative Rheumatic Diseases; know how to describethem from a clinical and diagnostic point of view
Course contents summary
Classification ofRheumatic Diseases
- Inflammatory Arthropathies ( (epidemiology, ,etiopathogenesis clinical aspects)
a) Rheumatoid Arthritis
b) ) Seronegative spondyloarthritis ( (ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's Syndrome)
-Sjogren’s syndrome
-Connective tissue diseases (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinicalmanifestations)?
a)LES?
b)Scleroderma?
c)Dermato polymyositis
-Vasculitis (classification, clinical aspects)?
a)Polymyalgia Rheumatica?
b)Temporal artheritis
-Osteoarthritis (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical aspects)
-Microcrystalline Arthropathies (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinicalaspects)
-Extra-articular rheumatism: Fibromyalgia (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis,clinical aspects)
-Paget’s disease
-Osteoporosis
Recommended readings
MALATTIEREUMATICHE
S.TODESCO, P.F GAMBARI
ED. MAC GRAW HILL
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