Approach to the patient with neurological disorders
Correct anamnestic acquisition
Correct performance of the neurological objective examination
Acquisition of epileptological semeiotics
Learning the methods of acceptance, sampling, processing and staining of a bioptic sample
Goals : The course aims to provide students with the essentials knowledge of the main urological and andrological disease, the clinical course and the complications. At the end of the course, the student should know the basics of the main urological and andrological diseases and their diagnostic evaluation and the principal surgical and medical treatment.
Dynamics of doctor-patient relationship
Focused anamnesis: ability in tracing premorbid personality and risk-factors related to the psychopatological event
Basics of psychiatric nosografy and accuracy in diagnostic process
Expressive modalities concerning the diagnostic communication to patients and their family
Analysis of disease progression and knowledge of factors favouring the chronicization
Principles of psychopharmacology
Psychopatology
Psychiatric Semeiotics
Knowledge of Mental Disorders
Approach to outpatient or inpatient in ordinary hospitalization
Acquisition of neurological signs with the patient's neurological objective examination
Examples of communication of the diagnosis
Management of the main neurological therapies
Approach to outpatient or inpatient in ordinary hospitalization
Acquisition of neurological signs with the patient's neurological objective examination
Examples of communication of the diagnosis
Management of the main neurological therapies
1. Anomalies of urinary tract: hypospadias, epispadias, megaureter, ureterocele, posterior urethral
valves, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, cystic disease;
2. Haematuria: etiology, other sources of haematuria;
3. Urinary tract infections (lower and upper UTI) including:
a. Tubercolosis;
b. Sexually Transmitted Infections (like HPV);
4. Urolithiasis: etiology, diagnosis, medical and surgical management;
5. Urinary incontinence: continence mechanism, urodynamics, neurological bladder, urinary
incontinence in women;
6. Lower urinary tract obstruction:
a. Uretral stenosis;
b. LUTS (lower urinary tract symptons): storage and voiding symptoms;
c. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: IPSS score, medical and surgical management;
7. Prostate cancer: PSA and other molecular biomarkers, diagnosis, medical and surgical
management;
8. Neoplasms of kidney and upper urinary tract, renal cysts;
9. Neoplasms of the bladder: diagnosis, disease management;
10. Neoplasms of the testis;
11. Pathologies of the scrotum: testicular torsion, hydrocele, varicocele;
12. Kidney trauma.
Video of the main neurological manifestations
video of the main epileptic manifestations
- Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: From Research to Bedside. Editors: Giuseppe Morgia Giorgio Russo. Paperback ISBN: 9780128113974
- Porpiglia F. – “Urologia” – editore Minerva Medica
- Collegio dei Professori Universitari di Prima Fascia in ruolo e fuori ruolo- “Manuale di Urologia e Andrologia” - Pacini Editore Medicin
Psicopatologia e Clinica Psichiatrica a cura di G.B. Cassano, E. Tundo, UTET Editore Torino (2007)
Manuale di Psichiatria a cura di M. Biondi, Elsevier Editore Milano (2009)