Salta ai contenuti. | Salta alla navigazione

Strumenti personali

ORGAN INVOLVEMENT IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES AND SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS

Academic year and teacher
If you can't find the course description that you're looking for in the above list, please see the following instructions >>
Versione italiana
Academic year
2019/2020
Teacher
MARCELLO GOVONI
Credits
1
Didactic period
Secondo Semestre
SSD
MED/16

Training objectives

The main visceral complications of connective tissue diseases and systemic vasculitis, with particular reference to central and peripheral nervous system, lung, heart, skin, kidney and gut.
Diagnostic approach, imaging techniques and therapeutic options.
The student should be able to recognise signs and symptoms of the main organ involvement of systemic autoimmune diseases and to plan, autonomously, a reasoned differential diagnostic and therapeutic pathway, involving the patient and tailoring decisions on his/her needs.

Prerequisites

Basic immunology. Knowledge of the physiopathology of the tissue and organ immune mediated damage

Course programme

•Neuropsychiatric involvement in connective tissue disease and vasculitis (2 hours)
•Cardiovascular involvement in connective tissue disease and vasculitis (1 hour)
•Pulmonary involvement in connective tissue disease and vasculitis (1 hour)
•Renal involvement in connective tissue disease and vasculitis (2 hours)
•Gastrointestinal involvement in connective tissue disease and vasculitis (1 hour)
•Muco-cutaneous involvement in connective tissue disease and vasculitis (1 hour)

Didactic methods

Traditional lecture and bedside clinical case discussion

Learning assessment procedures

Oral exam : average 1-2 questions about the course programme, mean duration 15 min. (it will be evaluated clarity, link ability, strictness and communication capability)

Reference texts

Slides provided by the teacher
QUICK REVIEW REUMATOLOGIA a cura di F. Trotta e M. Govoni. Edizioni EdiISES 2014
UNIREUMA: REUMATOLOGIA per studenti e medici di medicina generale, Idelson-Gnocchi ed., 2008
MALATTIE REUMATICHE . Todesco S., Gambari P.F., Punzi L., 5a ed., McGraw-Hill Companies ed., 2011
In deepth:
EULAR Textbook on Rheumatic Diseases (in lingua inglese) BMJ Group 2012 Editor JWJ Bijlsma
CORE CURRICULUM – Reumatologia . L. Punzi, A. Doria. McGrawHill Education 2014