MEDICAL SCIENCES

Module Endocrinology

Basic formative targets:

·         Fundamental knowledge of anatomy and physiology of endocrine and metabolic systems; Physiopathology of endocrine and metabolic disease onset; Main endocrine and metabolic diseases.

Formative targets of the class:

·         Acquisition of the fundamental theoretical knowledge needed for comprehension of endocrine system diseases (including pubertal endocrinology, endocrine diseases of the elder and endocrinology and physiopathology of human reproduction), andrological diseases and metabolic diseases

·         Acquisition of the knowledge related to functional and instrumental endocrine/metabolic semeiotic;

·         Acquisition of the theoretical knowledge needed to recognize the main diseases which constitute endocrine and metabolic emergencies;

·         Acquisition of the theoretical knowledge related to endocrine and metabolic aspects of childhood diseases, including congenital disendocrine and dismetabolic forms of childhood and adolescence;

·         Acquisition of the theoretical knowledge related to endocrine alterations responsible for defects of reproductive activity of male and female, including infectious, disendocrine, dismetabolic aspects;

·         Acquisition of the theoretical knowledge related to diagnosis of tumor diseases of endocrine glands and hormone-dependent tumors;

·         Acquisition of the theoretical knowledge related to epidemiology, prevention, differential diagnosis of the different forms of obesity and thinness;

·         Acquisition of the theoretical knowledge relative to epidemiology and primary and secondary prevention, diagnosis of the various forms of diabetes mellitus, including childhood diabetes and gestational diabetes, and diagnostic prevention and multidisciplinary treatment of risk factors for chronic complications of diabetes (ocular, renal, cardiovascular, etc.);

·         Acquisition of theoretical knowledge related to the prevention and diagnosis of lipid metabolism diseases.

 Basics of Endocrinology

·         Hypothalamic diseases and Hypopituitarism

·         Pituitary adenomas, acromegaly

·         Hyperprolactinemic syndromes

·         Anatomy and physiology of thyroid

·         Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism

·         Thyroiditis

·         Thyroid nodular diseases

·         Thyroid in pregnancy

·         Testicle diseases, seminal fluid exam, male infertility

·         Ovary diseases, hirsutism, polycystic ovary syndrome

·         Adrenal diseases: hypofunction, hyperfunction and congenital adrenal hypertrophy

·         Endocrine pancreas diseases: Diabetes mellitus type 1, Diabetes mellitus type 2, Acute and chronic complications of diabetes mellitus, Diabetes in pregnancy

·         Other endocrine diseases: Obesity, Lipid metabolism disorders, Hypoglycemia

-   Endocrinologia: Malattie del Metabolismo. IV Edizione. Giugliano e Autori vari. Edizioni Idelson-Gnocchi, Napoli, Maggio 2020. ISBN 8879476572

·     -    Uniendo. Lenzi A, Lombardi G, Martino E, Vigneri R. Minerva Medica. First Edition. 2010. ISBN 13978-88-7711-693-2

What are the causes of hyperprolactinaemia?

How is the BMI calculated?

If I have a high TSH and low FT4 and FT3 what could we suspect?