Nursing REPLICA I - I.F.O.

Pathologies due to chemical and physical causes: Omeostasis. Causes of diseases: ionizing radiation and radiation stress; high and low temperatures, electricity, chemical causes (smoking, alcohol, drugs). Genetic and molecular pathology Biological causes. Hereditary transmission of pathological features. Congenital non hereditary pathologies. Cellular pathology Causes of damage. Reversible and irreversible damage. Cellular response to damage. Morphology of cellular damage. Necrosis. Apoptosis. Cellular degeneration. Accumulation mechanisms. Steatosis. Causes of liver steatosis. Inflammation Phases of inflammation. Vasculitis and tissue inflammation. Acute and chronic inflammation. Cells involved in inflammation. Chemical mediators of inflammation. Repairing mechanisms. Physiopathology of thermoregulation Thermoregulation mechanisms. Fever pathogenesis. Pyrogen action. Fever classification. Cellular adaptation Atrophy. Hypertrophy. Hyperplasia. Metaplasia. Dysplasia. Neoplasms Neoplastic cells: morphology and characteristics. Cellular and tissue atypism. Benign and malignant tumors. Oncogenes and oncosuppressors. Definition and classification of neoplasms. Mutation, promotion and progression. Invasion and metastasis. Diffusion of metastasis. Pathogenic cause of neoplastic cells.

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1) Patologia Generale e Fisiopatologia Generale- Per i corsi di Laurea in Professioni Sanitarie Autore G.M.Pontieri, casa editrice PICCIN 2)Elementi di Patologia Generale- Per i corsi di Laurea in Professioni Sanitarie Autore G.M.Pontieri, casa editrice PICCIN 3) Principi di PATOLOGIA GENERALE- Per Lauree pre-specialistiche Autori B.M. Veneziani, I. Covelli, casa editrice FLORIO 4) Introduzione alla PATOLOGIA GENERALE Autori Tim D. Spector, John S. Axford, casa editrice AMBROSIANA

Mandatory

oral exam

Lectures in class