- Docente: Giuliano Bettini
- Credits: 5
- SSD: VET/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 8206)
Learning outcomes
Aethiology, pathogenesis, gross and microscopic features of the more relevant diseases and disorders of the following systems or organ: nervous system, eye, ear, liver, pancreas, grastrointestinal tract, muscle, bone, joints, male and female genital system, endocrine glands. The student should acquire skills sufficient to identify a lesion, describe it using the appropriate terminology, and plan a differential diagnosis.
Course contents
THE LIVER. Anatomy and physiology remnants. Physiopathology of liver failure. Post mortem changes. Growth anomalies. Portosystemic shunts. Liver ectopy. Liver rupture. Atrophy. Regressive changes: steroid hepatopathy, lipidosis, amiloidosis. Pigmentary changes: lipofuscinosis, haemosiderosis, jaundice. Toxicosis of the liver. Necrosis of the liver: causes, pathobiology, examples. Circulatory disorders: hyperaemia, thrombosis, portal hypertension, Budd-Chiari syndrome, telangiectasis. Nodular hyperplasia, Kisselev nodules. Hepatic fibrosis. Hepatic cirrhosis. Acute, chronic and granulomatous hepatitises. Parasitic disorders of the liver: coccidiosis, distomatosis, echinococcosis, cysticercosis, microascaridiosis. Primary and secondary liver tumours.
THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
THE PERITONEUM.
THE PANCREAS. Regressive lesions. Atrophy, necrosis. Pancreatitis. Tumours.
ENDOCRINE GLANDS. The pituitary: cysts, inflammation, functional and non functional tumours. Adrenals: regressive changes, inflammation, hypertrophy, tumours, the Cushing sundrome. The thyroid: goitre, tiroiditis, tumours. The parathyroid: hyperparathyroidism. Paraganglia: chemodectoma. Endocrine pancreas: diabetes mellitus, islet cell tumours.
MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM. Bones: skeletal deformities, metabolic osteopathies, osteomalacia, rickets, osteoporosis, fibrous osteodistrophy. Hypertophic osteopathy. Osteitis. Osteosarcoma. Muscles: congenital myopathies, myodistrophies, nutritional myopathies, excertional myopathies, myosistis, parasites of muscles. Joints : arthrosis, arthritis, tumours.
THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. Male genital system: cryptorchidism, orchitis, tumours of the testis, prostatic cysts, prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, prostatic neoplasms. Tranmissible venereal tumour. Penis carcinoma. Female genital system: ovarian cysts, ovarian neoplasms, cystic endometrial hyperplasia, endometritis, pyometra, metritis, uterine tumours.
NERVOUS SYSTEM. Elementary lesions. Congenital and inherited diseases. Hydrocephalus. Circulatory disorders. Neurodegenerations. Polioencephalomalacia. Leucoencephalomalacia. Hepatic encephalopathy. Neurotoxicosis. Spongiform encephalopathies. Meningitis. Encephalitis and encephalomyelitis. Parasites of the nervous system. Diseases of the peripheral nervous system. Tumours of the central and peripheral nervous system.
Readings/Bibliography
PS Marcato: Patologia Sistematica Veterinaria. Edagricole - Il Sole 24 Ore, Bologna, 2002
ZACHARY-McGAVIN Pathologic basis of veterinary disease 5° ed., Elsevier, 2011
MAXIE Jubb, Kennedy, Palmer's Pathology of Domestic Animals 3 voll. 5° ed., W.B. Saunders, 2007
Teaching methods
Room lectures and seminar
Practice on pathologic organs from slaughterhouses and autpsy room
Assessment methods
written exam (multiple choice quizzes)
oral and practical exam (exam of a organ or a slide: idenfication of the lesion, description, differential diagnosis, discussion)
Teaching tools
Powerpoint slides (https://campus.cib.unibo.it/)
images and other tools on http://portaledidatticovet.unibo.it/
Office hours
See the website of Giuliano Bettini