05118 - Medical Clinic and Medical Treatment (AK-C)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student possesses: - the ability of clinical reasoning adequate to analyze and solve the most common and relevant clinical problems of medical interest; - the ability to correctly apply the methodologies to detect clinical, functional and laboratory findings, critically interpreting them also from a pathophysiological point of view, for the purposes of diagnosis and prognosis and the ability to evaluate the cost/benefit ratios in the choice of diagnostic procedures;the ability to analyze and solve clinical problems of a medical nature, evaluating the relationships between benefits, risks and costs in the light of the principles of evidence-based medicine and diagnostic-therapeutic appropriateness; - the ability to correctly set up a therapeutic program in the context of the most common and relevant clinical pictures of medical interest, knowing how to make choices in the light of the principles of evidence-based medicine.

Course contents

Global Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

Primary and secondary alterations in cholesterol metabolism

Alterations in the metabolism of primary and secondary triglycerides

Guidelines for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia

Guidelines for the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia

Treatment of hypercholesterolemia

The terpia of hypertriglyceridemia

Lipoprotein(a): its role in cardiovascular risk

Readings/Bibliography

European Heart Journal (2023) 44, 4043–4140

European Heart Journal (2023) 00, 1–15

European Heart Journal (2021) 00, 1-111

European Heart Journal (2019) 00, 1-78

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

Slides projected in the classroom

Office hours

See the website of Sergio D'Addato