Basic formative targets:
Course formative targets:
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
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