Academic Year 2017/2018
- Docente: Paola Todeschini
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and ability to understand the problems of the patient with chronic renal insufficiency and the possibility of substitution of renal function (artificial or natural); Long-term follow-up and comorbidity management
Course contents
Transplant Immunology: Evaluation of the Blood Group, HLA typing and cross.match.
The transplant rejection: acute and chronic accelerated hyperacute rejection. Mobile rejection and humorous rejection.
Post-transplant metabolic complications: post-transplanted diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, bone disease, post-transplant anemia / erythrocytosis.
The recurrence of basic nephropathy in the graft
Neoplasms and transplantation
Readings/Bibliography
Principles and practice of renal transplantation
Barry D. Kahan, Claudio Ponticelli
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons with educational material available to the student.
Description and discussion of clinical cases
Assessment methods
Oral exam on the topics taught during the lessons
Office hours
See the website of Paola Todeschini