08793 - Nephrology

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5907)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student possesses knowledge, within his competence, related to the physiopathology and clinic of urinary tract diseases, functional and instrumental semeiotics, clinical methodology and pharmacological therapy in nephrology with particular regard to dialysis therapy.

Course contents

RENAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

NEPHROLOGICAL SEMEIOTICS (renal function tests, urinalysis, nephrological diagnostic imaging)

Nephrotic Syndrome and Primary Glomerulonephritis with Nephrotic Syndrome

NEPHRITIC SYNDROME AND PRIMITIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS WITH NEPHRITIC SYNDROME

TUBULO INTERSTITIAL NEPHROPATHIES

- URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS -

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS -

CHRONIC PYELONEPHRITIS

SECONDARY NEPHROPATHIES - LES - DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY

HEREDITARY NEPHROPATHIES - ALPORT SYNDROME - ANDERSON-FABRY DISEASE

-POLYCYSTIC DISEASE AND OTHER CYSTIC DISEASES OF THE KIDNEY

ACUTE RENAL FAILURE

CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE HEMODIALYSIS (physical principles and characteristics)

PERITONEAL DIALYSIS

KIDNEY TRANSPLANT

Readings/Bibliography

Garibotto-Pontremoli, Manual of Nephrology, and Minerva Medica

Didactic material provided during the completion of the course

Teaching methods

During the lectures, the main points of the program will be illustrated with the use of iconographic material (schemes and diagrams, histology, radiographs) that bring the student into direct contact with the clinical reality.

During the lessons, students will be offered the opportunity to explore topics of particular interest and to attend the U.O. of Nephrology and Dialysis of the Ravenna Hospital

Assessment methods

written test with multiple choice questions

Being an integrated course, the test consists of 50 questions (10 questions x 5 teachers).

Each question has three answers, only one of which is true.

To pass the exam, the student must answer at least correctly - 4 of 10 questions per subject e - 27 of 50 questions overall (18/30).

In order to take the exam, registration via electronic bulletin board is required, respecting the set deadlines.

Those who fail to register by the set date are required to promptly communicate the problem during the appeal. It will be the faculty of the teacher to admit them to the test. .

Office hours

See the website of Vittorio Dalmastri