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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
MATTEO ANGELO CANNIZZARO - Module ENDOCRINOCHIRURGIA - 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.

Course Structure

• MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA ENDOCRINO
  

  Lectures with moments of interactivity

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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

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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

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