76047 - General Pathology

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Podiatry (cod. 8479)

Learning outcomes

The student, at the end of the course is able to understand the underlying causes and pathogenic mechanisms of human diseases, as well as the etiology of the alterations of the fundamental structures, functions and control mechanisms at various levels of integration. The student knows the principles and also the biological basis underpinning the operation and regulation of the pathophysiology of impaired response in major diseases.

Course contents

1. Cellular pathology: health and disease concepts, etiology and pathogenesis; cellular adaptations, reversible and irreversible cell injury, necrosis and apoptosis.

2. Inflammatory response: etiology and classification of acute inflammation, chemical mediators, vascular changes and exudate formation, cellular events and phagocytosis, systemic consequences and etiopathogenesis of fever; chronic and granulomatous inflammation, pathogenesis of tuberculosis. reparative response: tissue repair and wound healing.

4. Reparative response: healing by repair, granulation tissue, scar formation.

5. General physiopathology : risk factors of atherosclerosis, formation of atheromatous plaque and related consequences; hemostasis and hemorrhagic diseases; thrombosis; embolism; infarction; hypoxia and cyanosis; oedema.

Readings/Bibliography

G.M. Pontieri - Patologia generale e fisiopatologia generale. Per i corsi di laurea in professioni sanitarie. III edizione, Piccin Editore

F.Celotti - Patologia generale e fisiopatologia. Seconda edizione, Casa editrice EdiSES

V. Kumar, A.K. Abbas, J.C. Aster. “Robbins & Cotran - Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th edition, 2015, Saunders Elsevier Ed. (only for insights)

Teaching methods

The course includes 24 hours of lessons on cellular pathology, inflammatory-reparative responses, and the physiopathology of blood vessels and hemostasis.

Assessment methods

The learning level will be assessed at the end of classes. the examination  will be a written test with multiple choice questions and will ascertain the knowledge that the student has about the program subjects.

Teaching tools

The teaching room has a PC, a projector and an Internet connection. The teaching material is available on line at http://campus.unibo.it/ . The slides are in two different formats: "Diapo”, for computer vision, and "Stampati", for black and white prints to be integrated with lecture notes

Links to further information

http://www.medicina.unibo.it/it/corsi/corsi-di-studio/corso/2014/8479)

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Bolognesi