RHEUMATOLOGY

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

6-year Single Cycle Master's Degree Programme in MEDICINE AND SURGERY

Disciplinary Sector:

Rheumatology

Is part of:

PHYSIOPATHOLOGY, CLINICAL METHODOLOGY AND SEMEIOTICS

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PASSIU Giuseppe

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

AF code:

40000213

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

At the end of the course the student should learn the that underly the pathogenesis of the most important rheumatic disease: inflammatory chronic arthritis, systemic connective tissue disease, metabolic bone disease and crystal arthritis.

Contents

Physiopathology of the principal rheumatic disease:
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Serum negative Spondyloarthritis and Ankilosing Spondylitis
- Connective tissue disease: SLE, Systemic Sclerosis, Sjögren’s Syndrome, Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis
- Vasculitis: Giant Cells Arteritis and Rheumatic Polymyalgia, ANCA associated vasculitis, Behcet’s Disease
- Crystal arthritis: gout
- Metabolic diseases of the bone: osteoporosis
- osteoarthritis

Recommended Bibliography

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