Unit ENDOCRINOLOGY

Course
Human feeding and nutrition sciences
Study-unit Code
GP004516
Location
PERUGIA
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Carmine Giuseppe Fanelli
Teachers
  • Carmine Giuseppe Fanelli
Hours
  • 42 ore - Carmine Giuseppe Fanelli
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline della nutrizione umana
Academic discipline
MED/13
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Reference texts
Manuale di endocrinologia. A cura di F. Lombardo - A. Lenzi. EdiSES, 2017.
Educational objectives
At the end of the course, students will know the most important clinical-laboratory elements to identify the most important endocrine-metabolic pathologies.
Prerequisites
The student must know the mechanisms that regulate the metabolic activities, the secretion and the action of the various hormones.
Teaching methods
Theoretical lessons
Learning verification modality
Secreting and "non-secreting" pituitary adenomas; hypopituitarisms; diabetes insipidus; "inappropriate ADH secretion". Outlines of auxology and disorders and disorders of body growth. Hyperthyroidism;
euthyroid goiter; "nodules" and neoplasms of the thyroid gland; thyroiditis; hypothyroidism. Primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism; hypoparathyroidism; osteomalacia and osteoporosis. Cushing's disease and syndrome; primary and secondary hypoadrenalism; endocrine hypertension: excess of mineralocorticoids and catecholamines. Enzymatic defects of steroidogenesis. Primary and secondary male and female hypogonadism; pathology of puberty; male infertility; disturbances of sexual differentiation. Diffuse endocrine system syndromes and polyendocrinopathies. Neuroendocrine tumors and carcinomas.
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