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Clinical Pathological Physiology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:03.08.2020 10:24:00
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PAK_019 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Pathology | Target Audience: | Dentistry | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Dainis Balodis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Pathology | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 9a Kuldigas Street, pak rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67815096 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 7 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 14 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 30 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Anatomy, normal physiology, biochemistry. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The objective of this course is ensure the knowledge in pathology, including parts of general and special pathological physiology – pathogenesis of many pathological conditions and diseases. This course of pathological physiology will give theoretical basis for further clinical subjects studies, forming a comprehensive educated dentist. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Cells pathology. Cells communication, oxidative stress, free radicals, antioxidants, NO. Ca i/c metabolism. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Hypoxia. Classification of hypoxia, hypoxia like typical pathological process. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Inflammation. Clinical signs of inflammation, kinds of inflammation, mediators of inflammation: cytokines, eucosanoids. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Stress. Kinds of stress, pathogenesis. PTSS – etiology, pathogenesis, principles of treatment. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Disorders of thermoregulation. Fever, etiology, pathogenesis. Hyperthermia. Hypothermia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Water-electrolyte balance disorders. Osmolarity. Hypohidratations, kinds, pathogenesis. Hyperhidratations. Edema, pathogenesis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | ABB disorders, types, pathogenesis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Etiology, pathogenesis, cells pathology, FR, oxidative stress. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Hypoxia, disturbances of peripheral blood circulation. Hyperaemias, stasis. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Inflammation. Laboratory diagnostic of inflammation, basic principles. Difference between exudate and transudate. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Colloqium. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Disorders of thermoregulation. Fever, kinds, etiology, pathogenesis, principles of treatment. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Water-electrolyte balance disorders. Clinical situations: hypohidratations, hyperhidratations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | ABB disorders. Clinical situations with different ABB disorders. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Colloqium. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 16 | Renal pathology. Glomerular and tubular pathology. Acute and chronic kidney failure. Chronic kidneys disease. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 17 | Lipids metabolism disorders. Lipoproteins, types, metabolism in pathology, hyperlipidemia, hypolipidemia, dislipidemia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 18 | Sugar diabetis. SD types, etiology, pathogenesis, risk factors, metabolic syndrome. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 19 | Gastrointestinal pathology. Pathologies of oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, intestines. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 20 | Cardiovascular pathology. Types, classification, hypertension, pathogenesis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 21 | Ca metabolism disorders, regulation of Ca in the blood. Osteoporosis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 22 | Renal pathology. Interpretation of urine analysis, clinical situations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 23 | Proteins and lipids metabolism disorders. Clinical situations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 24 | SD, Clinical situations with SD. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 25 | GIT and liver pathology, clinical situations. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 26 | Colloqium. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 27 | Blood pathology. Anemia, types, pathogenesis. White blood cells pathology. Coagulation disorders. Clinical situations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 28 | Cardiovascular pathology. Clinical situations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 29 | Ca metabolism disorders. Clinical situations (osteoporosis). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 30 | Colloqium. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students must use training materials from e-studies. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Short multiple choice tests; colloquia comprising theoretical questions and objective structured clinical /practical tasks, concerning the pathologies acquired during the course; at he end of the course the students take the examination consisting of 2 parts: theoretical questions and objective structured clinical /practical tasks, concerning the pathologies acquired during the course. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course the students will know and will be able to explain the nature, development, causes, consequences and outcomes of various diseases and general pathological processes. | ||||||||
| Skills: | The students will be able to identify the most frequent pathologies and evaluate the mechanisms of pathogenesis in clinical tasks. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The students will be able to use the acquired knowledge to analyze the material of clinical findings and to link it to the possible mechanism of pathology pathogenesis mechanism and to justify their assumptions and judgments about them. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | RSU e-studiju materiāli klīniskajā patoloģiskajā fizioloģijā | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Robbins Basic Pathology, 7th ed.. Kumar V, Cotran RS, Robbins SL. Saunders, Philadelphia, 2003, 873 lpp. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Robbins and Cotran Pathological Basis of Disease, 8th ed. Kumar V, Abbas AK, Fausto N, Aster J. Elsevier, 2009. | ||||||||
