CODE 66487 ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026 CREDITS 1 cfu anno 2 DIETISTICA 9288 (L/SNT3) - GENOVA 1 cfu anno 2 TECNICHE DI NEUROFISIOPATOLOGIA 11757 (L/SNT3) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/11 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: CLINICAL DIET THERAPY I TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW Il docente fornisce a lezione i propri recapiti in modo che gli studenti sia frequentanti che non frequentanti possano contattarlo e ottenere tutte le informazioni necessarie AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Understand medical terminology and classifications know the difference between etiology and risk factors, know how patients are examined, know how to program diet therapies in cardiovascular diseases, in kidney diseases and gastroenterological diseases.. Knowledge of Physiopathology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and therapy of acute and chronic forms of: ischemic heart disease, heart failure, valvulopathy, hyper and hypocintic arrhythmias. -Provide students with basic knowledge of ischemic heart disease (especially acute coronary syndromes), valvulopathy. Heart failure, arrhythmias. -Provide students with a general understanding of how to cope with cardiovascular risk factors, how to prevent the onset of ischemic heart disease and heart failure, how to manage a patient with arrhythmias or valvulopathies. -introduce prevention and management issues for the main forms of heart disease. -to enable students to acquire knowledge of the main cardiovascular diseases and to develop in students the ability to teach patients how to prevent the occurrence of ischemic heart disease and heart failure by increasing control of risk factors and physical activity. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES Knowledge and understanding of the of the pathophysiological mechanisms of the various forms of cardiovascular disease. Knowledge of the symptoms and of the diagnostic tests. Indications on the therapies to be used in the various pathologies Ability to recognize a typical symptom of heart disease and ability to direct patients to the most suitable diagnostic tests for the recognition of a specific pathology TEACHING METHODS Theoretical lessons The teaching consists of xx hours of training activities, of which x hours of theoretical lessons regarding all the topics of the programme SYLLABUS/CONTENT The following topics will be covered: Cardiovascular risk factors Coronary atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease with its various clinical manifestations: angina stable, unstable, myocardial infarction: NSTEMI and STEMI Hyper and/or hypokinetic arrhythmias Valvulopathies Heart failure RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY The teacher will provide students with slides of lessons and handouts that he has prepared TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD GIAN MARCO ROSA Ricevimento: At the first lesson the teacher will provide his email address and his phone to the students in order to be available for any clarification and in-depth analysis of the topics covered in class. gmrosa@libero.it LESSONS Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION oral test ASSESSMENT METHODS The assessment of learning takes place only through the final examination, which aims to ascertain the actual acquisition by the student of the expected learning outcomes. In order to pass the examination, and thus achieve a mark of not less than 18/30, the student must demonstrate: - Know the etiological agents, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests and therapies of various diseases of the cardiovascular system - Be able to identify both the symptoms of cardiovascular diseases and diagnostic tests to be used in various pathologies FURTHER INFORMATION The teacher will provide his contact details during the lessons in class, so that both attending and non-attending students can contact him and get all the necessary information
