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PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA - MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO URINARIO - channel 2

Teaching Staff

PASQUALE MARIO FATUZZO - Module NEFROLOGIA - MED/14 - 3 CFU
GIUSEPPE MARIA MORGIA - Module UROLOGIA - MED/24 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• 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

• UROLOGIA
  

  - 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

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