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  1. Medicine and Surgery
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  1. Advances in Metabolic Bone Diseases
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Insegnamento Course full name
Advances in Metabolic Bone Diseases
Course ID number
2122-3-H4102D093
Course summary SYLLABUS

Course Syllabus

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Contenuti sintetici

Programma esteso

Prerequisiti

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Materiale didattico

Periodo di erogazione dell'insegnamento

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Aims

The purpose of the course is to deepen the knowledge on osteoporosis and other common disorders of phospho-calcium metabolism learned in the basic course of endocrinology. Alongside a review of elements of physiology and pathophysiology, students will be provided with the tools, used in clinical practice, for a greater understanding of the differential diagnosis between pathologies that can occur in bone and phospho-calcium metabolism.


Contents

Osteoporosis and others most common phospho-calcium disorder

Detailed program

Insights related to osteoporosis: diagnosis of osteoporosis; distinction between primary and secondary osteoporosis; differential diagnosis between fractures: related to fragility, trauma, or secondary to metastatic localization; densitometry: interpretation and pitfalls. Overview of other common phospho-calcium metabolism disorders: osteomalacia; hyper/hypoparathyroidism; hypophosphatemia; hypomagnesemia.


Prerequisites

Propaedeutic skills


Teaching form

- Frontal lectures
- Clinical case description and analysis

In the event of pandemic emergency period, the lectures and clinical case/problem discussions will be held remotely by synchronous online videoconference or recorded video lectures available on demand

All course activities will be held in English language


Textbook and teaching resource

- Harrison’s Principles pf Internal Medicine 20th Edition 2018, McGraw-Hill

- Greenspan's Basic and Clinical Endocrinology, Tenth Edition 2017, McGraw-Hill

Semester

Assessment method

- Multiple choice test  with only one correct answer aimed at evaluating global comprehension of course program. Each correct answer is scored 1.

- Oral examination on the topics covered during the lectures, discussion on clinical problem solving and clinical

Case analysis

- All assessments will be done in English language

Office hours

To get an appointment, please contact the teachers by e-mail:

Prof. Roberto Trevisan, e-mail roberto.trevisan@unimib.it

Dr. Sara Cassibba, e-mail scassibba@asst-pg23.it

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Key information

Field of research
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ECTS
1
Term
Annual
Activity type
Elective
Course Length (Hours)
10
Degree Course Type
6-year single cycle Master Degree
Language
English

Staff

    Teacher

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    Sara Cassibba

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