Training objectives
The teaching contributes to the realization of the educational objective of the School of Medicine by providing students with knowledge about signs and symptoms, diagnostic procedures, and therapeutic indications in kidney diseases.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of teaching the students will be able to:
a) with reference to the symptom-signs proteinuria, haematuria, oliguria, polyuria, and peripheral edema:
 to illustrate the single pathophysiological mechanisms;
 to list the clinical significance and the main causes;
 to plan a correct diagnostic procedure.
b) To interpret in a physiological and diagnostic key the possible resuls of the urine test.
c) To specify indications and controindications, complications, costs, reliability of the main specialized diagnostic procedures:
- renal function test
- urine colture
- renal biopsy
- diagnostic imaging
- laboratory parameters.
d) With reference to the systematic nosography:
- To know, on the basis of epidemiological information, which are the most frequent pathologies affecting the urinary system.
- To differentiate and interpret the pathophysiological elements of clinical semeiology in order to correctly frame the pathogenesis.
- To specify the pathogenic role of the main risk factors.
- To be able to analyze clinical and instrumental data to make a correct diagnosis and set up a therapeutic schema.