37245 - Nephrology 2 (L-Z)

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the student with the essential elements of the theoretical and practical general knowledge of primitive and secondary diseases involving, from a medical point of view, the kidneys and the excretory pathways with the aim of providing: - synthetic and simplified elements on therapeutic, pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches useful in medical nephropathy, in acute and chronic renal failure; - general elements for a correct approach to patients treated with substitution therapies that characterize nephrology, particularly in dialysis and kidney transplantation.

At the end of the course, the student knows the basics of the main nephrological diseases in their chronic phase and of the biochemical, instrumental and clinical investigations necessary for their diagnosis and treatment. Thanks to the participation in planned internships and monothematic elective courses, at the end of the course the student has theoretical and practical bases for the recognition of the type of pathology by evaluating symptoms, clinical signs, laboratory and instrumental examinations.

Course contents

Nosography of renal disease.

Renal semiotics.

General information on glomerular nephropathy

            - glomerular nephropathy classification.

- Pathogenetic mechanisms of Glomerular nephropathy

Nephrotic Syndrome

- Minimal change disease

- Focal segmental glomeruloslerosis

- Membranous nephropathy

Nephritic Syndrome

-         Post-infectious glomerulonephritis

-         IgA nephropathy

Others Glomerular Nephropathies

-         Membranoproliferative GN

-         Rapidly progressive GN

Secondary Glomerular Nephropathy I

-         Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

-         Diabetic Nephropathy

Secondary Glomerular Nephropathy II

-         Cryoglobulinemic nephropathy

-         Kidney and Myeloma

-         Amyloidosis glomerular nephropathy

Urinary Tract Infections and Interstitial Nephropathy

-         Urinary Tract Infections

-         Acute Pyelonephritis

-         Chronic Pyelonephritis

Pregnancy and kidney

Acute Kidney Injury I

-         Prerenal acute renal failure

-         Postrenal acute renal failure

Acute Kidney Injury I

-         Acute Tubular Necrosis

-         Acute Cortical Necrosis

Hereditary Kidney Disorders I

-         Polycystic Kidney Disease

-         Alport Syndrome

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

-         Definition and staging 

-         Chronic Kidney Disease Progression

Chronic Kidney Disease

-         Nutrition in CKD

-         Bone disorders in CKD

-         erythropoiesis alterations in CKD

The Dialysis

-         Hemodialysis

-         Peritoneal Dialysis

Kidney Transplant

Readings/Bibliography

Garibotto-Pontremoli, Manuale di Nefrologia, ed Minerva Medica

Teaching methods

Lectures with slides.

Possibility of frequency department for insights of some procedures (dialysis with a visit to the ward and kidney transplant with a visit to intensive care nephrology)

Assessment methods

oral examination

To support the exam, on-line registration is required, respecting the provided deadlines. Those who don't could subscribe within the scheduled date are required to notify promptly to the Lecturers before the examination. Will be faculty of the Lecturer to admit them to the test. Verbalization of the evaluation obtained will takes place at the test itself.

Office hours

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