- Docente: Jacopo Ciaffi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/16
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 9210)
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from Oct 28, 2024 to Dec 12, 2024
Learning outcomes
Describe the clinical manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, risk factors, natural history, diagnosis, staging, prognostic indicators and management of the major rheumatologic diseases, with emphasis on those most commonly encountered in the clinical practice. Identify the major diagnostic and therapeutic options for each encountered clinical scenario, and discuss their benefits and limitations. Demonstrate an understanding of the overlap of rheumatology with other disciplines. Present and critically analyze clinical cases, discuss the differential diagnosis, and formulate appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for each case (Problem-Based Learning).
Course contents
- Outline of anatomy, histology and physiology of the musculoskeletal system
- Pathophysiology of rheumatic diseases
- Semeiotics of inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint diseases
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Axial spondyloarthritis (SpA)
- Peripheral spondyloarthritis (SpA)
- Infectious arthritis
- Crystal-induced arthritis (gout, CPPD)
- Inflammatory myopathies
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Connective tissue diseases
- Fibromyalgia
- Osteoporosis
- Vascular bone diseases
- Paget's disease
Readings/Bibliography
EULAR Textbook on Rheumatic Diseases (3rd edition, 2018)
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures
Assessment methods
Verification of learning takes place through an oral test aimed at assessing the achievement of the educational objectives of the course.
Teaching tools
The didactic material (slides) presented during the lesson will be made available to students on the Virtual portal. In addition, the slides of the lessons are provided with a bibliography in the margin, in order to allow the student any further information.
Office hours
See the website of Jacopo Ciaffi