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PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA III - MALATTIE DEL SANGUE E REUMATOLOGIA - channel 1

Teaching Staff

FRANCESCO DI RAIMONDO - Module MALATTIE DEL SANGUE - MED/15 - 3 CFU
RICCARDO POLOSA - Module Immuno-Rheumatology - MED/16 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Immuno-Rheumatology
  

  At the end of the course the student must: • Have acquired the essential knowledge for the approach to the rheumatology patient, with particular reference to the degenerative and inflammatory rheumatic diseases (systemic or not). • Have acquired the essential knowledge for the diagnosis and the therapeutic approach in the major diseases of the immune system, with particular reference to immune deficiencies, autoimmune diseases, vasculitis and allergies.

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Detailed Course Content

• Immuno-Rheumatology
  

  - Immunodeficiencies (pathogenesis and classification, with particular regard to the most common forms and the secondary ones, main clinical signs of suspected immune deficiency, interpretation of laboratory findings and general principles of therapy)

  - Allergic Diseases (physiopathology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic criteria and therapeutic outline details of: bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, serum sickness, anaphylactic shock, alveolitis, hypersensitivity syndrome, Urticaria and Angioedema, Hereditary Angioedema, Food allergies, allergies to medications, Contact Dermatitis)

  - Autoimmune diseases (grading, classification, clinical and laboratory signs useful to guide the diagnostic monitoring and therapy of systemic autoimmune disease

  - The connective tissue (grading, classification, diagnostic and therapeutic criteria): Systemic lupus erythematosus, progressive systemic sclerosis, Polymyositis-dermatomyositis, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease, Sjogren's Syndrome, Antiphospholipid syndrome)

  - Classification and nods of semiotics of rheumatic troubles

  - Arthritic signs during infections (clinical and diagnostic aspects)

  - Inflammatory Rheumatism (grading, classification, diagnostic and therapeutic criteria): Rheumatoid arthritis, Early Arthritis, HIV negative spondylarthritis, reactive arthritis

  - Arthritic signs from pathology of metabolism (clinical and diagnostic aspects, with particular reference to Gouty Arthritis)

  - Vasculitis (grading, classification, diagnostic and therapeutic criteria): Polyarteritis nodosa, Churg and Strauss’ syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis, Polymyalgia rheumatic and Giant cell arteritis, Schonlein-Henoch disease, Behcet disease, Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia)

  - The degenerative joint disease (grading, classification, diagnostic and therapeutic criteria, with particular reference to Osteoarthritis)

  - Osteopathies

  - Rheumatic troubles in the course of other diseases: Psoriatic Arthritis, Enteropathic Arthritis

  - Extra-articular rheumatism and canalicular syndromes

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Textbook Information

• Immuno-Rheumatology
  

  Title: Reumatologia E Immunologia Clinica
  Authors: Harrison - Fauci - Langford
  Publisher: McGraw-Hill
  Volum: 379
  Edition year: 2007

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