RESPIRATORY DISEASES B
2011/2012
2014/2015
DM270
MED/10 (MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO RESPIRATORIO)
DIPARTIMENTO DI MEDICINA MOLECOLARE
MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA (IN LINGUA INGLESE)
PERCORSO COMUNE
PRIMO SEMESTRE (01/09/2014 - 25/09/2014)
2
16 ore di attività frontale
ENGLISH
ORALE
CORSICO ANGELO GUIDO - 1 CFU
MELONI FEDERICA - 1 CFU
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At the end of the course, students should be able to :

- Perform a clinical examination of a patient with a suspected respiratory illness

- Know what are the commonest tools supporting clinical examinations and their diagnostic implications

- Know for each disease :

- What is (definition)

- How relevant is (epidemiology)

- Why and how is develops (etiology, pathophysiology)

- Which are the clinical and instrumental features and how to make a diagnosis

- Which is the clinical course (natural history, complications)

- What to do and where (therapy, hospital- or home-based)

- Possible phases of the disease needing urgent interventions ( how to recognise the emergency, and how to treat it)

- In which stages surgery is indicated

- the fundamental information for management of patients with heart or lung transplant

- the fundamental information for the management of respiratory failure
Respiratory diseases:

- pneumonia

- acute bronchitis

- COPD and pulmonary emphysema

- Bronchial asthma

- Tuberculosis

- Pulmonary abscess

- Lung granulomatosis (sarcoidosis – hypersensitivity pneumonitis – histiocytosis )

- Pulmonary fibrosis

- vasculitis

- pulmonary edema - ARDS

- pulmonary thromboembolic disease

- pleural effusions

- lung cancer

- malignant mesothelioma

- pulmonary artery hypertension

- respiratory failure

- lung transplant : indications and follow up

- adult cystic fibrosis



Lung function:

- lung structure and function

- lung function assessment : indications

- obstructive lung syndrome

- restrictive lung syndrome



Thoracic surgery:

- Surgical conditions of the trachea and main bronchi

- Malformations and diseases of the chest wall

- Pneumothorax . empyema

- Surgery of the lung cancer

- Mediastinal neoplasms

- Surgical conditions of the aesophagus

- Lung transplant
Interactive lessons and practical classes will be held at the Pneumology section
HARRISON’s Principles of Internal Medicine. 18e McGraw Hill

ERS (European Respiratory Society) Handbook of Respiratory Medicine 2nd Edition
oral exam