Medicine and Surgery

Clinical manifestations of kidney diseases: Nephritic and Nephrotic syndroms, Isolated Urinary Abnormalities, Acute renal failure, Chronic renal failure, Arterial hypertension, hydro-electrolytic disorders Diagnostic tools in kidney diseases: Study of renal function. Laboratory tests (urine and urinary sediment examination, clinical chemistry, microbiology, molecular biology), Radiology and ultrasonography, Renal biopsy. Acute Kidney Injury: Pre-renal, Renal and Post-renal. Definition, classification, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis and differential diagnosis. Chronic kidney disease: Definition and classification. Etiology and pathophysiology, clinical picture and diagnosis of CKD. Uremic syndrome: hydroelectrolyte disorders: hypo- and hypernatremia, metabolic acidosis and alkalosis, IPO-hyperkalemia CKD-MBD: Mineral Bone disorders Cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders. Haematological and immune disorders. Neuromuscular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, dermatological disorders in Uremic syndrome. Renal function replacement therapies: Hemodialysis: physical principles, therapeutic indications and clinical picture of the patient on hemodialysis. Peritoneal dialysis: physical principles, therapeutic indications and clinical picture of the patient on peritoneal dialysis Kidney transplantation: selection criteria of the recipient patient; organ donation and donor selection; immunosuppression; clinical picture of the transplanted patient, marginal donor Glomerulonephritis: Pathogenetic mechanisms of glomerular damage. Immunological and non-immunological glomerular lesions Primitive glomerulonephritis: GN at minimal injury; Acute postinfectious GN; IgA nephropathy; Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis; GN membranous; GN membrane-proliferative; GN extracapillary. Secondary glomerulonephritis: Diabetic nephropathy, lupus nephropathy; vasculitis; cryoglobulinemia; myeloma nephropathy, amyloidosis. Interstitial tubular nephropathy, nephrolithiasis and kidney and urinary tract infections: congenital and acquired renal tubular acidosis, acute and chronic pyelonephritis etc. Glomerular and tubular hereditary renal diseases (autosomal dominant and recessive polycystic kidney disease, clinical picture, diagnosis and therapy, Alport disease, Fabry disease etc), Kidney diseases of vascular origin: Nephrovascular hypertension, benign and malignant nephroangiosclerosis, atheroembolic disease, renal infarction, renal vein thrombosis.

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