- Docente: Davide Festi
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student knows: pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical course, diagnostic workup and therapeutic strategies of the main diseases of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine, liver and biliary tree.
Course contents
Nutrition, malnutrition and obesity
Digestive bleedings
Gut microbiota
Intestinal obstruction
Liver diseases
Hepatic function and mechanisms of acute and chronic liver damage
Natural history of hepatic diseases
Acute hepatic failure
Diagnosis of liver diseases
Alcoholic liver disease
Non alcoholic fatty liver disease
Autoimmune liver diseases
Drug and toxic liver diseases
Liver cirrhosis and its complications (portal hypertension, coagulopathy, ascites, hepatorenal syndrome, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatic encephalopathy)
Liver tumors
Liver transpant
Biliary and pancreatic diseases
Jaundice and cholestasis
Chronic cholestatic diseases
Biliary diseases (gallstone disease, disease of the Oddi sphincter)
Biliary tract tumors
Pathophysology of pancreatic secretion
Acute and chronic pancreatitis
Pancreatic tumors
Neuroendocrine tumors
Diseases of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum
Pathophysiology of esophageal diseases
Esophageal motor disfunctions
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Esophageal tumors
Pathophysiology of gastric secretion
Helicobacter Pylory infection and related diseases
Acute and chronic gastritis
Gastric tumors
Functional gastrointestinal diseases
Dyspepsia
Irrtitable bowel syndrome
Chronic constipation
Diarroea, malabsorption and colonic diseases
Pathophysiology of intestinal absorption
Acute and chronic diarroea
Celiac disease
Food allergy and intollerance
Diverticular disease
Colo-rectal cancer
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Crohn disease
Ulcerative colitis
Microscopic colitis
Readings/Bibliography
UNIGASTRO manual, EGI editor, Rome
Teaching methods
Lessons are performed by two different teachers for a total of 3 CFU
Assessment methods
The assessment method is represented by an oral examination aimed at evaluating that the student has reached the teaching objectives, in particular the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic work-up and general therapeutic strategy of gastrointestinal diseases
Teaching tools
The teaching material is represented by a text (Manuale UNIGASTRO, a book written by all the italian teachers of gastroenterology) and by the discussed slides, which are available for the student at the end of each lesson
Office hours
See the website of Davide Festi