Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

The student upon completion of this course should be able to know the main kidney disease: Particular attention should be directed to  primitive renal abnormalities and renal alterations in course of systemic disease.

The student must have knowledge of the basic elements of epidemiology, pathogenesis, classification, histopathology, clinical, laboratory and instrumental setting, differential diagnosis and therapy of renal disease.

In addition, the student must have acquired a methodology for kidney patient approach and to its management in acute, chronic disease and in terms of follow-up.

 

Course contents

Nosography of renal disease.

Renal semiotics.

General information on glomerular nephropathy

            - glomerular nephropathy classification.

- Pathogenetic mechanisms of Glomerular nephropathy

Nephrotic Syndrome

- Minimal change disease

- Focal segmental glomeruloslerosis

- Membranous nephropathy

Nephritic Syndrome

-         Post-infectious glomerulonephritis

-         IgA nephropathy

Others Glomerular Nephropathies

-         Membranoproliferative GN

-         Rapidly progressive GN

Secondary Glomerular Nephropathy I

-         Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

-         Diabetic Nephropathy

Secondary Glomerular Nephropathy II

-         Cryoglobulinemic nephropathy

-         Kidney and Myeloma

-         Amyloidosis glomerular nephropathy

Urinary Tract Infections and Interstitial Nephropathy

-         Urinary Tract Infections

-         Acute Pyelonephritis

-         Chronic Pyelonephritis

Pregnancy and kidney

Acute Kidney Injury I

-         Prerenal acute renal failure

-         Postrenal acute renal failure

Acute Kidney Injury I

-         Acute Tubular Necrosis

-         Acute Cortical Necrosis

Hereditary Kidney Disorders I

-         Polycystic Kidney Disease

-         Alport Syndrome

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

-         Definition and staging 

-         Chronic Kidney Disease Progression

Chronic Kidney Disease

-         Nutrition in CKD

-         Bone disorders in CKD

-         erythropoiesis alterations in CKD

The Dialysis

-         Hemodialysis

-         Peritoneal Dialysis

Kidney Transplant

Readings/Bibliography

TEXTS:

Garibotto-Pontremoli, Manuale di Nefrologia, ed Minerva Medica

Lectures

Updated training materials provided in the completion of the course or available on-line with university username and password at AMS campus-Alma DL-University of Bologna

Teaching methods

The end-of-course examination is designed to assess the achievement of the following educational objectives:

- To know in detail the pathogenesis and the clinical presentation of the main diseases with primitive or secondary renal involvement.

- To know the main concepts of instrumental diagnostics for the recognition of diseases with renal involvement.

- To know the main concepts of histology and histopathology of treated kidney disease.

- To learn about the essential elements of the treatment of diseases with renal involvement.

Assessment methods

The exam will be held in written examination with questions focusing on educational objectives listed above, with the final vote in thirtieths. .

To support the exam, on-line registration is required, respecting the provided deadlines. Those who don't could subscribe within the scheduled date are required to notify promptly to the Lecturers before the examination. Will be faculty of the Lecturer to admit them to the test. Verbalization of the evaluation obtained will takes place at the test itself.














Teaching tools

Lectures

Updated training materials provided in the completion of the course or available on-line with university username and password at AMS campus-Alma DL-University of Bologna

Office hours

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