- Docente: Francesco Azzaroli
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will know digestive diseases and the related nutritional management strategies.
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
Manuale di Gastroenterologia - Dietisti
Coordinamento Nazionale Docenti di Gastroenterologia (UNIGASTRO)
Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Teacher slides
Office hours
See the website of Francesco Azzaroli