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PATOLOGIA SISTEMATICA E CLINICA - MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA ENDOCRINO - channel 4

Teaching Staff

LAURA SCIACCA - Module MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA ENDOCRINO - MED/13 - 5 CFU
CONCETTO REGALBUTO - Module MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA ENDOCRINO
MASSIMILIANO VEROUX - Module Endocrine Surgery - MED/18 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA ENDOCRINO
  

  Students must acquire the fundamental knowledge of the pathophysiology, clinic, diagnosis and therapy of the main endocrine-metabolic diseases.

• Endocrine Surgery
  

  The course of Endocrine surgery will detail the main disease of the endocrine gland with specifical interest in surgical complications. Particularly, the course will deal with the main diseases of thyroid gland, adrenal gland and the main endocrine glands.

Course Structure

• MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA ENDOCRINO
  

  Lectures with moments of interactivity.

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.
  

• Endocrine Surgery
  

  Lessons

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Detailed Course Content

• MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA ENDOCRINO
  

  General mechanisms of endocrine pathophysiology

  General mechanisms of metabolic pathophysiology

  Hypothalamic-pituitary axis diseases

  Secreting and non-secreting pituitary adenomas

  Total and partial hypopituitarism

  Growth disorders

  Diabetes insipidus

  Thyroid diseases

  Hypothyroidism

  Hyperthyroidism

  Endemic and sporadic goiter

  Thyroid nodule

  Thyroiditis

  Thyroid tumors

  Alterations of phospho-calcic homeostasis

  Hypo- and hyper-parathyroidism

  Osteoporosis

  Gonad diseases

  Ovarian endocrine alterations

  Testicular endocrine abnormalities

  Disorders of sex differentiation and of puberty

  Reproductive dysfunction

  Adrenal disease

  Adrenal insufficiency

  Cushing syndrome

  Diseases of the adrenal medulla

  Diseases of the endocrine pancreas

  Type 1 diabetes mellitus

  Type 2 diabetes mellitus

  Acute and chronic complications of diabetes

  Hypoglycemia

  Other metabolic diseases

  Obesity and thinness

  Metabolic syndrome

  Disorders of lipid metabolism

  Other endocrine diseases

  Endocrine hypertension

  Endocrine-metabolic coma

  Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes

  Multiple endocrine neoplasia

  Hormone-dependent tumors and neuroendocrine tumors

• Endocrine Surgery
  

  Thyroid nodule

  Thyroid cancer

  Hyperthyroidism

  Hypothyroidism

  Adrenal gland incidentaloma

  Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN 1 e 2 )

  Benign disease of breast

  Malignant disease of breast

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Textbook Information

• MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA ENDOCRINO
  

  1. Uniendo. Lenzi A., Lombardi G., Martino E., Vigneri R. Endocrinologia Clinica, Minerva Medica. 2011. ISBN13978-88-7711-693-2.

  2. Malattie del Sistema Endocrino e del Metabolismo 5/ed. Faglia Giovanni, Beck-Peccoz Paolo. McGraw Hill Education. 2013. ISBN 9788838639753.

  3. Endocrinologia e malattie del metabolismo. Colao AM, Giugliano D., Riccardi R. Idelson-Gnocchi Editore. 2014. ISBN 9788879475778.

  4. Guida allo studio dell’Andrologia. Lenzi A. Società Editrice Universo. ISBN 2012, 9788865150689.

  Texts for consultation:

  1. Greenspan’s Basic and Clinical Endocrinology, Lange Medical Publications, Mc Graw Hill

  2. William’s Textbook of Endocrinology, Saunders Company, Elsevier Science

• Endocrine Surgery
  

  1) Dionigi. Chirurgia, basi teoriche e chirurgia generale

  2) DF D’Amico. Manuale di Chirurgia generale. Piccin Nuova Libraria, Padova. ISBN 978-88-299-2894-1.

  3) Schwartz's Principles of Surgery

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