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PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA VII - MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO URINARIO Nuovo canale 2

Teaching Staff

PASQUALE MARIO FATUZZO - Module NEPHROLOGY - MED/14 - 2 CFU
GIUSEPPE MARIA MORGIA - Module UROLOGIA - MED/24 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• NEPHROLOGY
  

  General nephrology and pathophysiology and clinical aspects of diseases of the urinary tract; areas of clinical expertise and research are functional and instrumental semeiotics, clinical methodology and drug and instrumental therapy and instrumental in nephrology with particular regard to dialysis therapy. The industry is finally interested in the scientific and teaching-training activities, as well as the activity of care appropriate to them in the field of science and dietetics with reference to the pathophysiology and clinical nutrition, dietetics and diet therapy and techniques for assessment of nutritional status in the carrier of chronic kidney disease

• UROLOGIA
  

  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.

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Detailed Course Content

• UROLOGIA
  

  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.

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Textbook Information

• NEPHROLOGY
  

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

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

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

• UROLOGIA
  

  Reading suggestions:

   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 Medicina

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