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SCIENZE MEDICO-CHIRURGICHE NELLA TERAPIA OCCUPAZIONALE

Teaching Staff

MARCELLO ANGELO ALFREDO DONATI - Module CHIRURGIA GENERALE - MED/18 - 2 CFU
PIERA CAPRANZANO - Module CARDIOLOGIA - MED/11 - 2 CFU
MICHELE COLACI - Module REUMATOLOGIA - MED/16 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• REUMATOLOGIA
  

  To learn the main rheumatic diseases, their clinical pictures and their possible functional issues.

Course Structure

• REUMATOLOGIA
  

  Classroom lessons, using PowerPoint.

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Detailed Course Content

• REUMATOLOGIA
  

  The pain in rheumatology: articular inflammatory or degenerative pain, muscle and fibromyalgic pain, neuropathic pain.

  The main inflammatory arthropathies: rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankilosing spondylitis, and other spondyloarthritis, gout. Main features, functional problems.

  Osteoarthritis.

  Fibromyalgia.

  Polymialgia rheumatica.

  Connective tissue diseases (systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, Sjogren's syndrome, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease, undifferentiated connective tissue disease) and vasculitides (giant cell arteritis and Takayasu's arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa and Kawasaki's disease, mixed cryoglobulinemia, Schoenlein-Henoch purpura, ANCA-associated vasculitis). Main features and possible functional problems.

  Osteoporosis.

  Other painful syndromes due to nerve commpression.

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Textbook Information

• REUMATOLOGIA
  

  Books for medical students or general practioners on rheumatology or clinical immunology are suggested.

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