PATOLOGIE GASTROENTERICHE ONCOLOGICHE E CHIRURGICHE
Module GASTROENTEROLOGIA

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Gaetano BERTINO

Expected Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes of the teaching of Gastroenteric Pathologies will be the knowledge of the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, symptomatology, and of the complications of the main diseases of the digestive system. Furthermore, the course aims to provide the relationships existing between gastroenterological pathologies and nutrition.

Course Structure

Frontal / traditional teaching.


The lectures will be held in frontal mode with the help of slides in Power-Point format, illustration and commentary on the images of instrumental investigations, report on clinical cases.

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of Cell Biology, Anatomy, Biochemistry, General Pathology, Human Physiology

Attendance of Lessons

Obligatory

Detailed Course Content

  • Outline of the main signs and symptoms of gastroenterological pathologies: chest pain, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, dyspepsia, constipation, diarrhea, jaundice, ascites, hematemesis, melaena, rectorrhagia, hematochezia.
  • Blood chemistry tests, imaging techniques and instrumental investigations in gastroenterology.
  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease and hiatal hernia; prevention and non-drug therapy of gastroesophageal reflux and esophagitis.
  • Helicobacter pylori pathologies. Acute and chronic gastritis. Drug gastropathies.
  • Peptic ulcer.
  • Celiac disease and malabsorption.
  • Chronic infectious and dysendocrine diarrhea.
  • Irritable bowel syndrome.
  • Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases: Crohn's disease, Ulcerative Rectum-Colitis and their complications
  • Diverticular disease of the colon.
  • Intestinal polyposis.
  • Hematochemical indices of liver function.
  • Hereditary hyperbilirubinemias.
  • Acute and chronic viral hepatitis.
  • Steatosis (NAFLD), Non alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
  • Alcohol liver disease.
  • Autoimmune diseases of the liver: autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, sclerosing cholangitis (outline).
  • Wilson's disease (outline). Hereditary hemochromatosis and secondary hepatic siderosis (outline).
  • Cirrhosis of the liver and its complications. Sarcopenia in the patient with liver cirrhosis.
  • Acute and chronic pancreatitis.
  • Causes of gastrointestinal bleeding.

Textbook Information


- Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025

- Harrison - Manual of Medicine - 19th Edition - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1• Outline of the main signs and symptoms of gastroenterological pathologies: chest pain, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, dyspepsia, constipation, diarrhea, jaundice, ascites, haematemesis, melaena, rectorrhagia, hematochezia.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
2Blood chemistry tests, imaging techniques and instrumental investigations in gastroenterology.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
3Gastroesophageal reflux disease and hiatal hernia; prevention and non-drug therapy of gastroesophageal reflux and esophagitis.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
4• Helicobacter pylori diseases. Acute and chronic gastritis. Drug gastropathies. Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
5Peptic ulcer.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
6• Celiac disease and malabsorptionManual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
7• Chronic infectious and disendocrine diarrhea.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
8• Irritable bowel syndrome.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
9• Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases: Crohn's disease, Ulcerative Rectum-Colitis and their complications.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
10• Blood chemistry indices of liver function.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
11• Diverticular disease of the colon.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
12Hereditary hyperbilirubinemias.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
13• Acute and chronic viral hepatitis.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
14• Steatosis (NAFLD), non alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
15Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
16• Autoimmune liver diseases: autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, sclerosing cholangitis (outline).Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
17• Wilson's disease (outline). Hereditary hemochromatosis and secondary hepatic siderosis (outline).Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
18• Cirrhosis of the liver and its complications. Sarcopenia in the patient with liver cirrhosis.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
19• Acute and chronic pancreatitis.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA
20• Gastrointestinal bleeding.Manual of Gastroenterology, UNIGASTRO, for Health Professions - Dietitians, Italian Gastroenterological Publishing, edition 2022-2025; Harrison - Manuale di Medicina - Edizione 19^ - 2017 - Casa Editrice Ambrosiana CEA

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral exam.

Verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, should the conditions require it.