MEDICINA INTERNA E INFERMIERISTICA CLINICA APPLICATA INFERMIERISTICA GERIATRICA E FARMACOLOGIA - canale 1

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff
  • INFERMIERISTICA CLINICA IN MEDICINA GENERALE: Teacher not yet allocated
  • Internal Medicine: Gaetano Bertino
  • INFERMIERISTICA GERIATRICA: Teacher not yet allocated
  • FARMACOLOGIA: Mariangela Chisari
Credit Value: 10
Scientific field
  • MED/45 - Nursing sciences: general, clinical and paediatric
  • MED/09 - Internal medicine
  • BIO/14 - Pharmacology
Taught classes: 70 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Detailed Course Content

  • Internal Medicine
    • Gastrointestinal diagnostic imaging
    • Gastroesophageal reflux and hiatal hernia
    • Esophagitis gastroesophageal reflux
    • Prevention and non-pharmacological therapy of gastro-esophageal reflux and esophagitis
    • Acute and chronic gastritis
    • Gastric and duodenal ulcers
    • Causes of malabsorption: the Celiac Disease in adults
    • Irritable bowel syndrome
    • Causes of gastrointestinal bleeding
    • Hematemesis, melena, rectal bleeding, hematochezia

     

    • Physiology of liver function
    • Enterohepatic circulation of bile acids
    • Liver and carbohydrate, lipid, protein
    • Liver and coagulation factors
    • Blood chemistry indices of liver function
    • Cytolysis
    • Cholestasis
    • Total and fractionated bilirubin (direct, indirect)
    • Jaundice
    • Acute hepatitis: etiology, prevention, clinic, evolution
    • Chronic hepatitis: etiology, clinical, evolution
    • Fatty liver
    • Liver cirrhosis: etiology, clinical, complications: portal hypertension, ascites, encephalopathy
    • Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
    • Role of insulin in glucose metabolism, lipid, protein
    • The beta-islet cells and insulin secretion
    • Insulin and its biological effect: the receptor and post-receptor events
    • Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus: blood glucose, oral glucose load curve, curve oral glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, microalbuminuria
    • Classification of diabetes mellitus: type 1 diabetes, type 2, gestational, being endocrinopathies
    • Genetics of Diabetes Mellitus
    • Vascular complications (micro- and macro-angiopathy) diabetes mellitus
    • Dietary therapy, physical activity and diabetes
    • Elements of pharmacological treatment of diabetes (insulin, oral hypoglycemic agents)
    • Diabetic comas: pathophysiology, clinical, treatment elements
    • Gout: pathophysiology and clinical
    • Obesity
    • Polymetabolic Syndrome: pathophysiology, prevention, clinical dyslipidemia

     

    • Hyperthyroidism: pathophysiology, clinical
    • Hypothyroidism: pathophysiology, clinical
    • Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, thyroid cancer
    • Cushing's syndrome
    • Conn's disease
    • Secondary aldosteronism
    • Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System
    • Pheochromocytoma

     

    • High blood pressure: blood pressure measurement mode hypertension: classification, etiology, prevention, clinical, complications, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment elements
    • Heart failure: classification, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical
    • Atherosclerosis: pathogenesis, prevention, clinical
    • Deep vein thrombosis (DVT): etiology, symptoms, complications, non-pharmacological therapy and drug therapy nods

     

    • Chest pain: flowcharts
    • Dyspnea: flowcharts
    • Bronchial asthma, acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax

     

    • Diagnostic Blood chemistry and instrumental in kidney disease
    • Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
    • Chronic renal failure

     

    • The blood count
    • Anemia classification’s
    • Signs and Symptoms of anemias
    • Leukemia and Lymphoma: Signs and Symptoms

Textbook Information

  • Internal Medicine

    Internal Medicine

    Autor: Antonelli Incalzi Raffaele, Editore: PICCIN EDITOR.

    - Internal Medicine

    Autors: Massini Renato; Izzi Donatello; Marchetti Patrizia; Passeretti Francesca; Recine Umberto, Editor: McGraw-Hill Italia