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PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA VII - MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO URINARIO Nuovo canale 3

Teaching Staff

FRANCESCO RAPISARDA - Module The Kidney - MED/14 - 2 CFU
SEBASTIANO CIMINO - Module UROLOGIA - MED/24 - 2 CFU

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Detailed Course Content

• The Kidney
  

  NODS OF RENAL PHYSIOLOGY
  DIAGNOSTIC ELEMENTS OF NEPHROPATHY
  - Assessment of renal function (glomerular filtration rate, tubular function, renal blood flow)
  - Evaluation of the laboratory investigations and urinalysis
  - Signs and symptoms of kidney disease
  - Nephrologic syndromes
  - Renal Biopsy (indications and controindications)
  
  GLOMERULAR NEPHROPATHIES
  - Etiopathogenesis, classification criteria
  - Main clinical features of primary and secondary glomerular diseases
  - Nephrotic syndrome (causes, pathophysiology, complications)
  - Nephritic syndrome (causes, pathophysiology, complications)
  - Glomerular nephropathy secondary to systemic diseases (autoimmune and metabolic imprint) and to hereditary glomerular nephropathy (lupus nephritis, cryoglobulinemic nephritis, diabetic nephropathy, purpura gravidarum, Alport syndrome)
  
  VASCULAR NEPHROPATIES
  - Renal vein thrombosis
  - Renal infarction
  - Renal artery stenosis (renovascular hypertension: etiology, pathophysiology, diagnostics)
  - Nephroangiosclerosis
  - Vasculitis
  
  TUBULAR-INTERSTITIAL NEPHROPATIES

  - Acute interstitial nephritis (etiology, clinical trials)
  - Chronic interstitial nephritis (etiology, clinical trials)
  
  INFECTION OF THE KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT
  - Acute pyelonephritis
  - Cronic pyelonephritis (etiopathogenesis and clinical trials)
  - Renal tuberculosis (etiopathogenesis and clinical trials)
  
  BACKGROUND ON THE MALFORMATION AND DYSPLASTIC NEPHROPATHY

  - Abnormalities of shape, number and position of the kidney

  - Cystic kidney disease: simple cysts, dysplastic cysts, polycystic kidney, sponge kidney
  

  ACUTE RENAL FAILURE
  - Classification, RIFLE criteria
  - Etiopathogenesis
  - Diagnostic elements and clinic ,therapy
  

  CONTRAST-INDUCED NEPHROPATHY (CIN)

   

  CARDIOVASCULAR RISK AND KIDNEY

  
  CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE
  - Causes, classification, evaluation of renal function
  - Pathophysiology, complications, therapy
  - Metabolic disorders, disorders of fluid and electrolytes, sodium, potassium, calcium and phosphorus
  - Clinical elements and notes of dietary and alternate therapy (hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, renal transplantation)
  
  THE KIDNEY IN PREGNANCY
  - Hypertensive disease of pregnancy
  
  THE KIDNEY IN THE ELDERLY
  - Pathophysiology of renal senescence

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Textbook Information

• The Kidney
  

  1-Schena-Selvaggi: Malattie dei Reni e delle vie Urinarie; McGraaw-Hill

  2-Garibotto- Pontremoli: Manuale di nefrologia;ED. Minerva Medica

  3-Clarkson-Brenner : Pocket Companion To THE KIDNEY ;Elsevier Saunders

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