- Docente: Paola Todeschini
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide the student with the essential elements of the theoretical and practical general knowledge of primitive and secondary diseases involving, from a medical point of view, the kidneys and the excretory pathways with the aim of providing: - synthetic and simplified elements on therapeutic, pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches useful in medical nephropathy, in acute and chronic renal failure; - general elements for a correct approach to patients treated with substitution therapies that characterize nephrology, particularly in dialysis and kidney transplantation.
At the end of the course, the student knows the basics of the main nephrological diseases in their chronic phase and of the biochemical, instrumental and clinical investigations necessary for their diagnosis and treatment. Thanks to the participation in planned internships and monothematic elective courses, at the end of the course the student has theoretical and practical bases for the recognition of the type of pathology by evaluating symptoms, clinical signs, laboratory and instrumental examinations.
Course contents
Nosography of renal disease.
Renal semiotics.
General information on glomerular nephropathy
- glomerular nephropathy classification.
- Pathogenetic mechanisms of Glomerular nephropathy
Nephrotic Syndrome
- Minimal change disease
- Focal segmental glomeruloslerosis
- Membranous nephropathy
Nephritic Syndrome
- Post-infectious glomerulonephritis
- IgA nephropathy
Others Glomerular Nephropathies
- Membranoproliferative GN
- Rapidly progressive GN
Secondary Glomerular Nephropathy I
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Diabetic Nephropathy
Secondary Glomerular Nephropathy II
- Cryoglobulinemic nephropathy
- Kidney and Myeloma
- Amyloidosis glomerular nephropathy
Urinary Tract Infections and Interstitial Nephropathy
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Acute Pyelonephritis
- Chronic Pyelonephritis
Pregnancy and kidney
Acute Kidney Injury I
- Prerenal acute renal failure
- Postrenal acute renal failure
Acute Kidney Injury I
- Acute Tubular Necrosis
- Acute Cortical Necrosis
Hereditary Kidney Disorders I
- Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Alport Syndrome
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
- Definition and staging
- Chronic Kidney Disease Progression
Chronic Kidney Disease
- Nutrition in CKD
- Bone disorders in CKD
- erythropoiesis alterations in CKD
The Dialysis
- Hemodialysis
- Peritoneal Dialysis
Kidney Transplant
Readings/Bibliography
Garibotto-Pontremoli, Manuale di Nefrologia, ed Minerva Medica
Teaching methods
Lectures with slides.
Possibility of frequency department for insights of some procedures (dialysis with a visit to the ward and kidney transplant with a visit to intensive care nephrology)
Assessment methods
oral examination
To support the exam, on-line registration is required, respecting the provided deadlines. Those who don't could subscribe within the scheduled date are required to notify promptly to the Lecturers before the examination. Will be faculty of the Lecturer to admit them to the test. Verbalization of the evaluation obtained will takes place at the test itself.
Teaching tools
The slides of the lessons will be inserted on Alma Campus and will be an aid to support the preparation of the student
Office hours
See the website of Paola Todeschini