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NEUROCHIRURGIA MALATTIE INFETTIVE E MALATTIE APPARATO VISIVO

Teaching Staff

GIUSEPPE MARIA BARBAGALLO - Module NEUROCHIRURGIA - MED/27 - 2 CFU
BRUNO SANTI CACOPARDO - Module MALATTIE INFETTIVE - MED/17 - 2 CFU
SALVATORE FARO - Module neurophthalmology and disease of the visual system - MED/30 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• NEUROCHIRURGIA
  

  To understand epidemiology, classification, clinical features and diagnostic approach to the most common neurosurgical diseases. To gain experience about clinical correlation between neurosurgical diseases and eye disorders.

• MALATTIE INFETTIVE
  

  The course aims to provide basic informations on biological, microbiological, pathogenetic, clinical aspects of the most relevant eye infections

• neurophthalmology and disease of the visual system
  

  provide basic knowledge about eye's diseases and retina's diseases and optic nerve

Course Structure

• NEUROCHIRURGIA
  

  Frontal teaching; practical training and seminars in the Neurosurgical Unit, Policlinico University Hospital

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Detailed Course Content

• NEUROCHIRURGIA
  
  • Intracranial hypertension

  • Cerebro-spinal Fluid circulation diseases: diagnosis and treatment

  • Cerebral hemorrhage

  • Traumatic brain injuries

  • Brain tumors: diagnosis and multimodal treatment

  • Vertebral and spinal cord tumors

  • Cranial and vertebral malformations

  • Traumatic spine injuries

  • Cervical spondylotic myelopathy and cervical disc herniation

  • Lumbar and thoracic spine disc herniation and spondylosis

• MALATTIE INFETTIVE
  

  Bacterial microbiota in the eye environment

  Eye bacterial infections including endophtalmitis

  Sepsis

  AIDS

  CMV chorioretinitis

  Ocular Toxoplasmosis including connatal toxoplasmosis

  Trachoma

  Eye and Chlamydia

  Eye herpetic infections

  Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis

• neurophthalmology and disease of the visual system
  

  according to the calendar.

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Textbook Information

• NEUROCHIRURGIA
  

  “Lezioni di Neurochirurgia”

  Author: Carlo Alberto Pagni

  Editor: Edizioni Libreria Cortina Torino

  III Edizione 1994

   

  “Neurochirurgia”

  Author: Francesco Maiuri, Faust D’Andrea

  Editor: Bios

  1992

• MALATTIE INFETTIVE
  

  Manuale di Malattie Infettive; Autore: Borgia - Gaeta - Angarano - Concia - Contini - AAVV , Editore: Idelson - Gnocchi , Edizione: Marzo/2015 , Volume: Unico

  Malattie infettive di Moroni - Antinori - Vullo Anno 2015 Editore: Masson

• neurophthalmology and disease of the visual system
  

  S.MIGLIOR, T.AVITABILE,S.BONINI,E.CAMPOS,L.MASTROPASQUA : MALATTIE APPARATO VISIVO B.LUMBROSO,M.RISPOLI, M.C.SAVASTANO: ANGIOGRAFIA OCULARE ( fluorangiografia e angiografia OCT)

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