RHEUMATOLOGY
cod. 05846

Academic year 2007/08
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Reumatologia (MED/16)
Field
Clinica delle specialita medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
2 hours
of face-to-face activities
0.25 credits
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Integrated course unit module: RENAL

Learning objectives

<br />Acquire knowledge on themain inflammatory and degenerative Rheumatic Diseases; know how to describethem from a clinical and diagnostic point of view

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Course unit content

<br /> Classification ofRheumatic Diseases<br />- Inflammatory  Arthropathies ( (epidemiology, ,etiopathogenesis clinical aspects)<br />a) Rheumatoid  Arthritis<br />b) ) Seronegative spondyloarthritis ( (ankylosing  spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's Syndrome)<br />-Sjogren’s syndrome<br />-Connective tissue diseases (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinicalmanifestations)?<br />a)LES?<br />b)Scleroderma?<br />c)Dermato polymyositis<br /> <br />-Vasculitis (classification, clinical aspects)?<br />a)Polymyalgia Rheumatica?<br />b)Temporal artheritis<br /> <br />-Osteoarthritis (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis,  clinical aspects)<br /> <br />-Microcrystalline Arthropathies (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinicalaspects)<br />-Extra-articular rheumatism:  Fibromyalgia (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis,clinical aspects)<br />-Paget’s disease<br />-Osteoporosis

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />MALATTIEREUMATICHE<br />S.TODESCO, P.F GAMBARI<br />ED. MAC GRAW HILL<br /> <br />PROFESSOR'S NOTES

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