| Course ID: | MWW-SE>CLINICALIMMU |
| Course title: | CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY |
| Semester: | Winter |
| ECTS: | 2 |
| Lectures/Classes: | 14 / 16 hours |
| Field of study: | Veterinary Medicine |
| Study cycle: | 1st cycle |
| Type of course: | compulsory |
| Prerequisites: | There is a limit of 16 people registered for a particular course Knowledge of basic immune mechanisms in healthy animals, basic patho-physiological mechanisms, diagnostic procedures and internal diseases corresponding to clinical case studies. |
| Contact person: | Julia Miller; julia.miller@upwr.edu.pl |
| Short description: | The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the issues of clinical immunology. During the course they are discussed problems of pathomechanisms of autoimmunity, allergic diseases, neoplasma, immunodeficiencies and basics of transplantology, serotherapy and immunomodulation. Students learn how to diagnose immune-mediated diseases using available laboratory tests. |
| Full description: | The course includes following questions: Pathogenesis of autoimmunity. Immunotherapy, immunomodulation. Tumor immunology. Laboratory tests in diagnostics of immune mediated diseases. Pregnancy immunology- disturbances in reproduction caused by an immune-mediated process. Age-related changes in the immune system. Transplantology. Principles of serotherapy. Primary and secondary immunodeficiencies. Clinical aspects of immune system neoplasia. Organ-specific Immunology: Pathogenesis of immune-mediated endocrine diseases. Joint immunology. Immune-mediated muscular and neurological disease. Specific immunology of the alimentary tract. Immune-mediated skin diseases. Immune mediated haematological diseases. Multisystem and intercurrent immune-mediated disease. |
| Bibliography: | 1. Essentials of Clinical Immunology,Chapel H., Haeney M., Misbah S., Snowden N. , Blackwell Publishing; 5th Edition (2006) 2. Clinical immunology of the dog and cat, Day M.J. Thieme/Manson; 2nd Revised (September 14, 2010) 3. Veterinary Immunology I.Tizard, Saunders, 2008, 8th edition |
| Learning outcomes: | Knowledge: - describes specific mechanisms of skin immunity, their disturbances, specific immune mechanisms in tissues of neurological, muscles and joint systems, digestive system - describe current approaches to immunotherapy of cancers and therapeutic protocols in lymphoma - describe and distinguish systemic immune diseases and insufficiencies and red- and white blood cell systems - describe and distinguish [rimary and secondary immune deficiences Skills: - associate general clinical symptoms with immunological phenomena - select appropriate clinical samples for diagnosis of immune mediated diseases - analyze results of clinical and laboratory examination in the context of immune mediated diseases - plan therapeutic approach of immune mediated diseases Social competences: - work in small group - solve problems in analytic mode of thinking |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: | Two written partial exams during the semester. The rating obtained for the classes of 50% and an assessment of credit obtained from the lectures 50% Credit. |