- Docente: Lorenzo Fuccio
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)
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from Oct 13, 2025 to Dec 16, 2025
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student should know the basic principles of the pathology, pathogenesis, etiology, and all the most recent advancements in the management of the most frequent upper, lower gastrointestinal diseases as well as those interesting the liver, the biliary tract and the pancreas.
Course contents
**Liver Diseases**
* Liver function and mechanisms of acute and chronic liver injury
* Natural history of liver disease
* Acute liver failure
* Diagnostics
* Viral hepatitis
* Alcohol-related liver disease
* Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis
* Autoimmune liver diseases
* Storage liver diseases
* Drug- and toxin-induced liver injury
* Complications of cirrhosis (portal hypertension, coagulopathy, ascites, hepatorenal syndrome, bacterial peritonitis, encephalopathy)
* Liver neoplasms
* Liver transplantation
**Diseases of the Biliary Tract and Pancreas**
* Pathophysiology of bile secretion
* Jaundice and cholestasis. Chronic cholestatic diseases
* Biliary tract disorders (gallstone disease, choledocholithiasis, organic and functional papillary disorders)
* Biliary tract neoplasms
* Pathophysiology of pancreatic–duodenal secretion
* Acute pancreatitis
* Chronic pancreatitis
* Pancreatic neoplasms and precancerous lesions
* Neuroendocrine tumors
Readings/Bibliography
Digestive Diseases - Unigastro. Edition 2019-2022. Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana.
Teaching methods
Lectures and clinical case discussions
Assessment methods
Oral Exam
Teaching tools
PPT Presentations
Office hours
See the website of Lorenzo Fuccio