NEPHROLOGY

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:

Nephrology

Is part of:

SYSTEMATICS II

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

COSSU Maria

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

To have passed the tests about Clinical Methodology and Semiotics and Physiopathology

AF code:

40004148

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

1) epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of kidney disorders, acid-base balance, chronic and acute renal insufficiency, glomerulonephritis, interstitial nephritis and diabetic nephropathy, regulation of calcium and phosphate balance and outline of kidney transplantation, Renal replacement therapy (dialysis treatment) and Therapeutic apheresis (plasma exchange or cytapheresis)

Contents

Fundamentals of kidney physiology
acid-base balance
chronic and acute renal insufficiency
glomerulonephritis, interstitial nephritis and diabetic nephropathy
Cardiorenal syndrome: Definition, prevalence, diagnosis, and pathophysiology
Regulation of calcium and phosphate balance
Kidney transplantation
Renal replacement therapy (dialysis treatment)
Therapeutic apheresis (plasma exchange or cytapheresis)

Recommended Bibliography

http://www.uptodate.com/contents/search (available for free in every computer in the Medical School of the University of Sassari and in the affiliated teaching hospitals)
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ (available for free in every computer)
Book: Manuale di Gastroenterologia UNIGASTRO
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
Urologia (Porpiglia)
Notes and PDF materials supplied by the teachers

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