Academic Year 2018/2019
- Docente: Gian Gaetano Ferri
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/31
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The module of this integrated course aims to provide the students
specialistic knowledges regarding the diagnostic assesment and the
therapeutic strategy of facial nerve paralysis. Moreover, it aims
to present the physiopathologic principles that regulate the
vestibular system completed with the presentation of the more
significant balance disorders.
Course contents
1. Anatomy and physiopathology of the facial nerve. Instrumental
semiotics.
2. Idiopathic facial nerve paralysis. Post-traumatic palsy.
Otogenic, neoplastic and iatrogenic facial nerve paralysis.
3. Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome.
4. Rehabilitation.
5. Intraoperaive facial nerve monitoring.
6. Anatomy and physiology of the vestibular system.
7. Bedside examination: evaluation of spontaneous, evoked and provoked nystagmus.
8. Vestuibular neuronitis. Meniere's disease. Benign paroxysmal
positional vertigo.
9. Other causes of vertigo. Pediatric vertigo. Rehabilitation.
Readings/Bibliography
It is not necessary to purchase specialistic textbooks, even if
they could be useful for consultation and deepen knowledges.
At the end of the course, students may access, through personal
username and password, to the teaching material available at the proper link of the University of Bologna.
Teaching methods
Frontal presentation of the slides in PowerPoint format integrated
by some representative videos.
Assessment methods
Idoneity at the end of the course if the student attended a
sufficient number of hour lessons.
Teaching tools
Presentation of slides (Microsoft Office Power Point) and videos
from PC on HD TV set as projector.
Office hours
See the website of Gian Gaetano Ferri