- Docente: Riccardo Meliconi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/16
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student wuold be able to undertsand the basic pathophysiology, symptoms and signs of the most common joint disorders
Course contents
- Anatomy, histology and physiology of the joint
- Sign and symptoms of inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint disorders
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Spondiloarthritis
- Idiopatic juvenile arthritis
- Infectious arthritis
- Crystal deposition arthropaties (gout)
- Inflammatory miopathies
- Polymialgia rheumatica and introduction to vasculitides
Readings/Bibliography
Unireuma - Reumatologia - per studenti e medici di medicina generale Valesini - Valentini - Montecucco - Cerinic - Ferraccioli - Cutolo - Bombardieri Idelson-Gnocchi, 2008
Harrison - Reumatologia e Immunologia Clinica
Anthony S. Fauci, Carol A. Langford
Edizione italiana: F. Indiveri, M. Vanoli
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Malattie reumatiche S. Todesco, P.F. Gambari
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Teaching methods
Frontal teaching with slides
Assessment methods
Multiple choice question test
Teaching tools
PowerPoint presentations
Office hours
See the website of Riccardo Meliconi