02359 - General Pathology and Physiopathology (AK-C)

Academic Year 2018/2019

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

Learning outcomes

The students will learn the etiology of the disease processes, the pathogenetic mechanism of their development, the basic reactions to abnormal stimuli and the morphological changes they induce in cells and tissues, together with the systemic and functional consequences for the organism. By the elaboration of molecular, morphologic, microbiologic and immunologic knowledges, the students will understand the wherefores of the signs and symptoms manifested by patients and will be provided with a sound foundation for evidence based medicine.

Course contents

COURSE CONTENTS

ENVIRONMENTAL PATHOLOGY Physical injuries, Local and systemic effects of high and low temperatures, Smoke damage Chemical injuries; Ethanol: absorption and detoxification, acute and chronic toxic effects; Local and systemic effects of endotoxins, Pathogenic action of exotoxins (diphtheria, cholera, tetanus and botulinum)

CELLULAR PATHOLOGY Cell adaptations, Atrophy Hypertrophy , Hyperplasia, Metaplasia and dysplasia, Cell jnjury, Etiopathogenesis of cellular damage, Vacuolar degeneration; Steatosis: etiology and classification,pathogenic mechanisms, Cell death, Apoptosis, Necrosis, pathologic calcifications, amyloidosis

RESPONSE TO THE DAMAGE Acute inflammation, General characteristics, Etiology, Vascular phenomena, Exudative oedema, Cell phenomena, Phagocytosis, Chemical mediators: plasma proteases, Chemical mediators: cellular products, Classification of acute inflammations, Outcomes and systemic effects; Chronic inflammation, Granulomatous forms, Pneumoconiosis, Etiopathogenesis of the tuberculousosis, Granulation tissue, Wound healing, sclerosis, cirrhosis 

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY haemostasis, haemorragic diseases and thrombosis; Etiopathogenesis of shock, hypertension, infarction, hypoxia and cyanosis Classification of arteriosclerosisPathogenesis of atheroma; Consequences of atherosclerosis; pathogenesis of infarction, hypoxia, cyanosis; pathogenesis of infarction; Etiopathogenesis of fever, oedema, diabetes mellitus

Readings/Bibliography

V. Kumar, A.K. Abbas, J.C. Aster. “Robbins & Cotran - Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9thedition, 2015, Elsevier Ed

Teaching methods

teacher led lectures

Assessment methods

viva test; two questions

one to ascertain theoretical knowledge

one entails the assessment of the skills acquired at the Laboratory of Histopathology

Online registration via AlmaEsami is mandatory.

Teaching tools

lectures slides hosted at AMS campus web site

Office hours

See the website of Massimiliano Bonafè