OVERVIEW

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

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, shall reach out to the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liase and arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes.

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)

M. Chiaranda: Urgenze ed Emergenze/Istituzioni, Piccin 4° ed., 2016

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Please refer to the Web Agenda | University of Genoa, available at the following link: https://easyacademy.unige.it/portalestudenti/

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written test with n° 6 answers with multiple responses

FURTHER INFORMATION

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

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