Lectures:
Pathophysiology course focuses on acquiring knowledge and skills in the field of aetiology of disorders in adaptation and regulatory functions and metabolic disorders in humans. Students will gain knowledge of mechanisms responsible for causing the disorders in individual organs and systems, functional changes they lead to and the overall consequences to an organism.
Tutorials:
Tutorials are designed to introduce the student with the detailed
mechanisms of disorders in systems and organs, symptoms and diagnostics of particulars disease including diseases of the endocrine system, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory system diseases, causes and symptoms of acute kidney damage, chronic kidney disease, anaemia, leukemia, coagulation disorders.
Lectures ( 10 academic hours):
1. Definition of the disease and risk factors. Pathogenesis of inflammation. Cell and plasma-derived mediators of inflammation. Cancer disease.
2. Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Pathogenesis of heart failure. Hypertension. Circulatory failure. Pathogenesis of shock.
3. Pathogenesis of endocrine system disorders. Pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications.
4. Haemostasis. Haemorrhagic diathesis. Thrombosis.
Tutorials (20 academic hours):
1. Pathophysiology of pituitary and thyroid diseases and pathomechanism of the adrenal medulla and cortex diseases.
2. Pathology of the urinary and respiratory system.
3. Pathogenesis of anaemia. Leukemia
4. ECG and its usefulness in cardiological diagnostics. Pathogenesis of myocardial infarction. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
5. TEST (tutorials and lectures).
Self-learning (10 hours)
1. Obesity 2. Osteoporosis 3. Quantitative and qualitative disorders of the white blood cell system 4. Avitaminosis 5. Acute and chronic complications of diabetes.