Pharmaceutical Pathology

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

Our course is devoted to interpret the patholgic basis of diseases to pharmacist undergraduates. Our aim is to present the study of the structural, biochemical, and functional changes in cells, tissues and organs that underlie diseases. By the use of molecular, microand macromorphologic techniques, pathology attempts to provide diagnosis and a rational basis for clinical care and therapy, placing special emphasis on pharmacotherapeutic aspects. Pathology serves as the bridge between the basic sciences and clinical studies and is the scientific foundation for the entirety of the medicine.

Lectures

• 1. Disease types in the human body. Necrosis. Acute and chronic inflammation. Oncology basic concepts. - Vida Livia
• 2. Disease types in the human body. Thronbosis and embolisation. Pathology of the immune system. - Vida Livia
• 3. Cardiovascular diseases I. Heart diseases. Disease of arteries and veins. - Vida Livia
• 4. Cardiovascular diseases II. High blood pressure. Valvular diseases. Developmental malformations. - Vida Livia
• 5. Diseases of the respiratory system I. Upper and lower airway infections. Asthma. Acute lung injury. - Vida Livia
• 6. Diseases of the respiratory system II. COPD. Pneumoconioses. Laryngeal and lung cancer. - Vida Livia
• 7. Diseases of the liver and the biliary system. Liver failure. Hepatitides. Cholelithiasis. Pancreatitis. Malignant diseases. - Vida Livia
• 8. Diseases of the kidney and the male genitalia. Glomerulonephritides. Pyelonephritides. Kidney stones. Diseases of the testis and the prostate. Malignant diseases. - Vida Livia
• 9. Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract I. Diseases of the oral cavity, the esophagus and the stomach. - Vida Livia
• 10. Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract II. Diseases of the small and the large intestine. - Vida Livia
• 11. Diseases of the hemopoetic system. Anemias. Hodgkin lymphoma. Non-hodgkin lymphomas. Acute leukaemias. - Vida Livia
• 12. Diseases of the endocrine system. Pituitary, thyroid and adrenal gland diseases. - Vida Livia
• 13. Diseases of the central nervous system. Circulatory dysturbances. Dementias. Infections. Demyelinisating and malignant diseases. - Vida Livia
• 14. Diseases of the female genital tract. Breast cancer. Cervical cancer. Endometriosis. - Vida Livia

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Lecture handouts are provided. Recorded lectures in mp4 format are also available.

Notes

Recommended literature

Robbins Basic Pathology, 10th Edition.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Students will have two midterm exams (around week 7 and 14). The final grade is calculated as the arithmetic average of the two midterms' results.

Mid-term exams

Students will have two midterm exams (around week 7 and 14). The final grade is calculated as the arithmetic average of the two midterms' results.

Making up for missed classes

There is no opportunity to make up missed classes.

Exam topics/questions

Disease types in the human body.

Cardiovascular diseases.

Diseases of the respiratory system.

Diseases of the liver and the biliary system.

Diseases of the kidney and the male genitalia.

Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Diseases of the hemopoetic system.

Diseases of the endocrine system.

Diseases of the central nervous system.

Diseases of the female genital tract.

Examiners

• Vida Livia

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Vida Livia