- Docente: Alessandra Gambineri
- Credits: 4
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)
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from Oct 02, 2025 to Dec 10, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course student knows the bio-molecular bases of the control of hormonal secretion and of the growth of endocrine glands. Student also learnes pathophysiology, diagnostic approach, and therapy of different diseases
Course contents
Topics of the course are neuroendocrinology, thyroid diseases, hypercortisolism and hypocortisolism, hypertension secondary to endocrine diseases, type and type 2 diabetes, paratiroid diseases, hyperandrogenism and female hypogonadism, male ipogonadism, osteoporosis, obesity and metabolic syndrome, hypoglicaemia, severe insulin resistance states.
Readings/Bibliography
Uniendo. Endocrinologia Clinica. Ed. Minerva Medica
Teaching methods
Frontal teaching using slides. Interactive sessions focused on the discussion of clinical cases
Teaching tools
slides
Office hours
See the website of Alessandra Gambineri