03594 - Gastroenterology (LZ-B)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • 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

Liver diseases

• Acute liver failure

• Viral hepatitis

• Alcohol-related liver disease

• Steatosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

• Autoimmune liver disease

• Accumulation liver disease

• Drug induced liver injury

• Complications of cirrhosis (portal hypertension, coagulopathy, ascites, hepatorenal syndrome, bacterial peritonitis, encephalopathy)

• Liver neoplasms

Diseases of the biliary tract and pancreas

• Jaundice and cholestasis. Chronic cholestatic diseases

• Cholelithiasis

• Neoplasms of the biliary tract

• Physiopathology of pancreato-duodenal secretion

• Acute pancreatitis

• Chronic pancreatitis

• Neoplasms and preneoplastic lesions of the pancreas

Diseases of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum

• Motor disorders of the esophagus

• Gastroesophageal reflux disease (including Barrett's esophagus)

• Neoplasms of the esophagus

• HP infection and related diseases

• Chronic gastritis and gastropathy from drugs

• Stomach cancer and precancerous lesions

Gastrointestinal functional pathologies

• Functional dyspepsia

• Irritable bowel syndrome

• Chronic constipation

Diarrheas, malabsorptions and colon pathologies

• Diarrhea

• Celiac disease

• Diverticular disease

• Colorectal neoplasm

Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases

• Crohn's disease

• Ulcerative colitis

• Microscopic colitis

Digestive hemorrhages

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

 

The final mark is the result of the mean of the marks obtained during an oral examination on the topics of the integrated course of Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Metabolic 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 Francesco Azzaroli