GENERAL PATHOLOGY
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
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- Full programme
- Bibliography
- Teaching methods
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The student must pass a written test of 31 questions to be solved in 35 minutes. The questions will be related to the course content; and will be structured in: acquisition and understanding of knowledge (45%) and application of acquired knowledge (35%), independent judgment (10%) and learning skills (10%).
The General Pathology course provides the students with the fundamentals of modern cellular and molecular pathology. The course deals with the investigation of those pathological mechanisms common to all tissue-cell pathology; etiology, pathogenesis, morphologic changes, functional derangements and clinical significance. Attention is paid to the processes of cellular adaptation, cell death, cellular accumulation, tissue repair, inflammation, immunology and immunopathology, and neoplasia.
The arguments include:
- Concepts of etiology, pathogenesis, morphological changes and functional alterations
- causes of cell damage and cellular adaptation, growth and differentiation; hypertrophy; hyperplasia; metaplasia; atrophy, necrosis and apoptosis
- Immunity and the immune system, the inflammatory response, innate and acquired immunity, vaccines, active and passive immunity
- Cancer: Cell cycle control, nomenclature and classes of cancers, benign and malignant tumors, physical, chemical and viral carcinogenesis, genetics and cancer, oncogenes and oncosuppressors, definition and epidemiological evidence for multi-stage carcinogenesis, metastasis.
- Concepts of clinical pathology
Topics include:
- Concepts of etiology, pathogenesis, morphological changes and functional alterations
- causes of cell damage and cell adaptation, growth and differentiation; hypertrophy; hyperplasia; metaplasia; atrophy, necrosis and apoptosis
- Immunity and immune system, inflammatory response, innate and acquired immunity, vaccines, active and passive immunity
- Cancer: cell cycle control, nomenclature and classes of tumors, benign and malignant tumors, physical, chemical and viral carcinogenesis, genetics and cancer, oncogenes and oncosuppressors, definition and epidemiological tests for multiple carcinogenesis, metastasis.
- Concepts of clinical pathology
Anatomia umana
K. Saladin, E. Gaudio: Anatomia e Fisiologia Ed Piccin;
Martini/Bartholomew : Elementi di Anatomia, ecc, EdiSES;
K.T. Patton-G.A. Thibodeau: Anatomia e fisiologia VII Ed Elsevier;
G.J. Tortora, B Derrickson: Principi di Anatomia e fisiologia
Patologia generale:
Pontieri “Patologia Generale & Fisiopatologia generale. Per i corsi di Laurea in Professioni Sanitarie” (Piccin)
Parola “Patologia Generale” (EdiSES)
Pontieri, Russo, Frati “Patologia Generale” (Piccin)
Robbins “Le Basi Patologiche delle Malattie”, (Piccin)
Del Gobbo, “Immunologia e Immunopatologia” (Piccin)
Abbas, Lichtman, Pober, “Immunologia Cellulare e Molecolare” (Elsevier)
GENERAL PATHOLOGY
The course objectives will be achieved through lectures for a total of 12 hours. Attendance of the lessons is mandatory.
The professor will receive students in his office (Via Monte Generoso 71, “Ex Cascina”) after making an appointment by e-mail.