PATOLOGIA GENERALE

Know the causes of illness and their different nature: chemical, physical, biological (Etiology); know the different ways in which these causes bring damage to the organism (Pathogenesis); identify the organism's own defense mechanisms by studying the physiology of the Immune system and its functioning anomalies (Immunology and Immunopathology). The course will develop from the molecular level to higher grades of organization (cell, tissue, organ, apparatus, organism)

Frontal lesson

• Introduction General Pathology
• Alterations acid-base balance
• Genetic diseases
• Environmental pathology
• Pathogenesis of bacterial and viral diseases
• Cellular pathology: cellular adaptations (hyperplasia, hypertrophy, atrophy, metaplasia, dysplasia), apoptosis, necrosis
• Regeneration, repair and healing
• Inflammation: acute, chronic, inflammatory mediators
• Fever and alterations of the temperature
• Immune system: innate immunity, acquired (cell mediated and humoral)
• Evasion of host defences
• Primary and acquired immunodeficiencies (AIDS)
• Hypersensitivity: I, II, III e IV type
• Immune tolerance
• Autoimmunity: pathogenetic mechanisms and some autoimmune diseases (multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes)
• Tumors
• Atherosclerosis
• Amyloidosis

• Elementi di patologia generale per corsi di laurea in professioni sanitarie, Giovanni M. Pontieri – Piccin
• Elementi di fisiopatologia, GM Pontieri - Ed. Piccin