PATOLOGIE GASTROENTERICHE ONCOLOGICHE E CHIRURGICHE

Module GASTROENTEROLOGIA

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.

• 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.

- 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

Oral exam.

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