Internal Medicine: Diabetes

Data

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Topic

The purpose of the subject is to teach the students the major carbohydrate and metabolic disorders. The theoretical knowledge is accompanied with the next clinical skills: specific history taking and physical examination of patients with carbohydrate metabolic abnormalities and angiological diseases, blood glucose measurement, carotid intima-media thickness measurement, detection of diabetic neuropathy (vegetative, sensoric), use of insulins, PENs, diagnosis and treatment of ulcus cruris, demonstration of continuous glucose monitoring system and insulin pump, measurement of waist-hip ratio, calculation of body mass index and LDL-cholesterol, calculation of a diabetic diet. Importance of Ankle-brachial index test.

Lectures

• 1. Metabolic diseases and atherosclerosis, pre-diabetes - Wittmann István
• 2. The complex treatment of diabetes mellitus. - Wittmann István
• 3. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic complications of diabetes - Wittmann István
• 4. Type 1 diabetes mellitus and pancreoprive diabetes. - Wittmann István
• 5. Acute complications of diabetes mellitus - Wittmann István

Practices

• 1. Metabolic diseases and atherosclerosis, pre-diabetes - Kovács Tibor József
• 2. Metabolic diseases and atherosclerosis, pre-diabetes - Kovács Tibor József
• 3. The complex treatment of diabetes mellitus. - Wittmann István
• 4. The complex treatment of diabetes mellitus. - Wittmann István
• 5. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic complications of diabetes - Laczy Boglárka
• 6. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic complications of diabetes - Laczy Boglárka
• 7. Type 1 diabetes mellitus and pancreoprive diabetes, the metabolic syndrome - Okoriené Bekő Viktória
• 8. Type 1 diabetes mellitus and pancreoprive diabetes, the metabolic syndrome - Okoriené Bekő Viktória
• 9. Acute complications of diabetes mellitus - Sütő Gábor
• 10. Acute complications of diabetes mellitus - Sütő Gábor

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, McGrew-Hill Book Company

Joslin's Diabetes Mellitus, 14th edition, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 2005.

J. C. Pickup, G. Williams: Textbook of Diabetes 2, 3rd edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

1 absence allowed.

Mid-term exams

-

Making up for missed classes

Making up the absences is not allowed.

Exam topics/questions

1) Role of metabolic diseases in the development of atherosclerosis

2) Pre-diabetic states

3) Type 1 diabetes mellitus

4) Type 2 diabetes mellitus

5) Pancreoprive diabetes mellitus

6) Insulin therapy

7) Oral antidiabetic agents

8) Acute complications of diabetes mellitus

9) Chronic complications of diabetes mellitus

10) Dietetotherapy in diabetes mellitus.

11) Preoperative care of diabetic patients and the therapy of hypertension

12) Diagnosis and treatment of patients with other metabolic diseases.

Examiners

• Kovács Tibor József
• Kun Szilárd János
• Laczy Boglárka
• Molnár Gergő Attila
• Okoriené Bekő Viktória
• Sebők Judit
• Sélley Eszter
• Sütő Gábor
• Wittmann István

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Kovács Tibor József
• Kun Szilárd János
• Laczy Boglárka
• Okoriené Bekő Viktória
• Sélley Eszter
• Sütő Gábor
• Wittmann István