- Docente: Santi Mario Spampinato
- Credits: 4
- SSD: BIO/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Pharmacy (cod. 0039)
Learning outcomes
Examination of innovative aspects of pharmacotherapy of metabolic deseases and of aging. Comparison among traditional therapies and new and antiaging therapies. Critical analysis of these aspects. Analysis of metabolic deseases as obesity and bulimia, and analysis of therapeutic treatments and palliative ones.
Students will acquire a basic preparation which make them able to know the fundamental concepts in order to understand in the right way the therapeutical basis of more important metabolic deseases, and which make them able to give proper informations to patients in pharmacy open to the public.
Course contents
An integrated approch to management of dyslipidemias, diabetes and hypertension.
Drugs used in the treatment of metabolic diseases: Wilsons disease, Gauchers disease, carnitines deficiency, porphyrias.
Pharmacotherapy of nutritional diseases: drigs used for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, treatment of obesity.
Antiaging drugs: hormonal therapies, electrolytes, minerals and vitamins.
Critical revision of antiaging therapies.
Palliative strategies for dementias, for macula degeneration and for cataract.
Readings/Bibliography
Munson - Principi di Farmacologia - Casa editrice Piccin - 2000
Materials given during the lessons.
Teaching methods
Theoretical lessons and guide to web sites which contain interesting therapeutical informations for the course.
Assessment methods
During the last week of the course, it will be a written test in progress on the lessons topics in order to assess the theoretical knowledge of the students.
The final exam will be oral; the test in progress, if done, will be also considered.
Teaching tools
Projector, pc.
Office hours
See the website of Santi Mario Spampinato