OVERVIEW

Rapid diagnosis of ischemic stroke and hyper-acute treatment with intravenous thrombolysis and intra-arterial thrombectomy

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The student will be able to identify the onset stroke symptoms and to predispose the correct diagnostic procedure in order to differentiate ischemic and hemorrhagic forms, and to know the modern neurological and neuro-radiologic therapies .

TEACHING METHODS

Theoretic frontal lessons including clinical cases’ presentation and analysis of the literature.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Description of the stroke epidemiology; description of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke types, neuro-radiologic test for differential diagnosis; rules of stroke treatment in the acute phase; indications and contra-indications of the thrombolytic therapy.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Neurologia di Fazio Loeb (SEU)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ALDO PENDE (President)

FRANCESCO TORRE (President)

SERGIO BERTOGLIO

DARIA BOERI

CLAUDIO BRUNELLI

MARCO CASACCIA

GIOVANNI CORSINI

GIACOMO DAGNINO

FRANCO DE CIAN

LUIGI DE SALVO

LAMBERTO FELLI

MATTEO FORMICA

ROSARIO FORNARO

FRANCESCO MARIA FRANCHIN

MARCO FRASCIO

CARLO GANDOLFO

EZIO GIANETTA

CLAUDIO LAUNO

ANTONIETTA MARIA MARTELLI

FRANCESCA MATTIOLI

MICHELE MINUTO

LUIGI MOLFETTA

LUCIANO MORESCO

ANDREA MOSCATELLI

FRANCESCO SAVERIO PAPADIA

ENRICO PARODI

PAOLO PASQUALINO PELOSI

PIER LUIGI PERCIVALE

ALBERTO PRIMAVERA

FRANCESCA SANGUINETI

GIOVANNI BATTISTA SECCO

CESARE STABILINI

GIANCARLO TORRE

EMANUELA VARALDO

GIACOMO BORGONOVO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written test with n° 6 answers with multiple responses

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

The teacher will receive the students upon telephonic or electronic-post appointment.

Carlo Gandolfo  tel. (+39) 010353 – 7052 cgandolfo@neurologia.unige.it