- Docente: Francesco Azzaroli
- 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
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