Unit ENDOCRINOLOGY
- Course
- Human feeding and nutrition sciences
- Study-unit Code
- GP004516
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Carmine Giuseppe Fanelli
- Teachers
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- Carmine Giuseppe Fanelli
- Hours
- 42 ore - Carmine Giuseppe Fanelli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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
- Contents
- Pathophysiology of endocrine glands. Diagnostics and notes on therapy of endocrine and metabolic diseases.
Relevance of human nutrition in the prevention and treatment of endocrinopathies. - 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
- Written examination consisting of 31 multiple-choice questions. The duration of the test is 30 minutes. The test is conducted on Unistudium platform. A pass mark is obtained with a Quiz score of 18 - which equals a mark of 18/30 and for each point thereafter, the mark increases by one point. The final mark of 31 corresponds to 30 cum laude.
- Extended program
- 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. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Quality education.
Gender equality