System diseases 3

Course program:
ENDOCRINOLOGY and metabolism
· Lecture 1 - Impact of endocrinology on general health
· Lecture 2 - Hypothalamus and Pituitary
· Lecture 3 - Hypothalamus and pituitary: hypopituitarism
· Lecture 4 - Thyroid function and hypothyroidism
· Lecture 5 - Thyroid dysfunction: hyperthyroidism
· Lecture 6 - Diagnostic problems of thyroid conditions and rare thyroid diseases
· Lecture 7 - Thyroid goiter, nodules and cancers
· Lecture 8 - Obesity, disorders of lipid metabolism and nutrition disorders
· Lecture 9 - Diabetes Mellitus type 1 and 2
· Lecture 10 - Hypoglycemia and differential diagnosis
· Lecture 11 - Diabesity and gouts
· Lecture 12 - Urbanization, life style changes and metabolic diseases
· Lecture 13 - Reproductive endocrinology
· Lecture 14 - Reproductive endocrinology
· Lecture 15 - Adrenal function and diseases
· Lecture 16 - Discussion of clinical cases and adrenal imaging and Pathology
· Lecture 17 - Disorders of calcium homeostatsis
· Lecture 18 - Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia and neuroendocrine tumors
· Lecture 19: Metabolic Bone disorders
· Lecture 20 - Pathology of the Thyroid
· Lecture 21 - Pathology of the pituitary gland and adrenal gland
· Lecture 22 Neuroendocrine tumors
· Lecture 22 - Pathogenic role of microbes in endocrine diseases - part 1
· Lecture 23 - Pathogenic role of microbes in endocrine diseases - part 2
· Interactive clinical case discussion
· Interactive clinical case discussion

MODULE: GASTROENTEROLOGY
· Session 1. Course Presentation & Frontier Lecture/Seminar
· Session 2. System Diseases: Esophagus
· Session 3. Approach to the patient with dysphagia
· Session 4. Pathology of the esophagus
· Session 5. System Diseases: Stomach and Duodenum
· Session 6. Approach to Patients with Gastric Symptoms
· Session 7. Pathology of the stomach
· Session 8. System Diseases: Pancreas
· Session 9. Pathology of the pancreas
· Session 10. Approach to the patient with Liver disease
· Session 11. Liver diseases due to infectious Agents
· Session 12. Clinical consequences of Liver diseases
· Session 13. System Diseases: Immune mediated Liver diseases
· Session 14. System Diseases: Inherited liver diseases
· Session 15. Metabolic and toxic liver diseases
· Session 16. Diseases of the biliary tract
· Session 17 - Pathology of the liver
· Session 18. Frontier Lecture/seminar: The GALT and the microbiome: from "physiological" inflammation to disease and therapy
· Session 19. System Diseases: Small and Large Intestine - Part 1
· Session 20. Approach to the patients with chronic diarrhea
· Session 21. Uses and abuses of laboratory tests, with special reference to neoplastic markers
· Session 22. System Diseases: Small and Large Intestine Part 2
· Session 23. Non-neoplastic diseases of the small intestine and large bowel
· Session 24. Tumours of the small and Large intestine
· Session 25. Etiology, pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases of gastrointestinal tract including the liver
· Session 26. Etiology, pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis of parasitic, fungine and bacterial diseases of gastrointestinal tract including the liver
· Session 27 - Appendix and the anal canal
· Session 28 - Molecular pathology of tumours of the gastrointestinal tract
· Session 29. Molecular pathology of pancreatic cancer


Bibliografia di riferimento
· Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19th Edition (also available as ebook in the digital library of the University of Milano http://www.sba.unimi.it/)
· Endotext: The best Clinical Endocrinology source in the world, and FREE. (www.endotext.org)
· Sleisenger And Fordtran's Gastrointestinal And Liver Disease, 10th edition
· Essential of Radiology. F. A. Mettler. 3rd Edition. Elsevier Saunders (ebook)
· Core Radiology. J. Mandell. Cambrige University Press. (ebook)
· Tietz Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics. Burtis & Bruns, 7th Edition, Elsevier
· Robbins and Cotran. Pathologic basis of Disease (9th Edition)
· Medical Microbiology, 8th edition. P. Murray, K Rosenthal, A. Pfaller Elsevier