RHEUMATOLOGY
cod. 20694

Academic year 2007/08
4° 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: DISEASES OF THE LOCOMOTOR APPARATUS

Learning objectives

<br />Know the main inflammatoryand degenerative Rheumatic Diseases; know how to describe them from a clinicaland diagnostic point of view; know the main therapeutic strategies andimplications 

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br /> Classification ofRheumatic Diseases<br />- Inflammatory  Arthropathies ( (diagnosis, , diagnosticproblems, clinical features, therapy)<br />a) Rheumatoid  Arthritis<br />b) ) Seronegative spondyloarthritis ( (ankylosing  spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter's Syndrome)<br />-Sjogren’s syndrome<br />- Connective tissuediseases (diagnosis, , diagnostic problems, clinical features, therapy)<br />a) LES?<br />b)Scleroderma?<br />c)Dermato polymyositis<br /> <br />-Vasculitis (diagnosis, , diagnostic problems, clinical features, therapy)<br />a)Polymyalgia Rheumatica?<br />b)Temporal artheritis<br /> <br />-Osteoarthritis (diagnosis, , diagnostic problems, clinical features, therapy)<br /> <br />-Microcrystalline Arthropathies (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinicalaspects)<br />-Extra-articular rheumatism:  Fibromyalgia (diagnosis, , diagnosticproblems, clinical features, therapy)<br /> <br />-Paget’s disease<br />-Osteoporosis<br />-Algodystrophy<br /> <br />-Rheumatic Diseases Therapy<br />            NSAIDs<br />            Corticosteroids<br />DMARDS<br />         Chondroprotective agents

Full programme

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Bibliography

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

Teaching methods

oral lessons

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