ONCOLOGICAL, SURGICAL AND GASTROENTERIC PATHOLOGIES

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.
• Metabolic Dysfunsion-Associated fatty Liver Disease  (MASLD), Non alcoholic steatohepatitis (MASH).
• 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.

Gastroesophageal reflux disease and hiatal hernia.

Helicobacter pylori diseases. Acute and chronic gastritis. Drug-induced gastropathies.

Peptic ulcer disease.

Celiac disease.

Irritable bowel syndrome.

Inflammatory bowel diseases: Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and their complications.

Blood chemistry indices of liver function.

Metabolic-associated steatotic disease (MASLD), steatohepatitis (MASH).

Alcohol-induced hepatitis.

Liver cirrhosis and its complications.

Sarcopenia in patients with liver cirrhosis.

Acute and chronic pancreatitis.