Ateneo - UPO

Principles of pharmacodynamicMain radiopharmaceuticals and their diagnostic and/or therapeutic use

Suggested books:
-• Diagnostica per immagini e radioterapia, G.Cittadini, ECIG
• Medicina Nucleare, A.Taylor – DM Schuster – N.Alazraki, Ed Minerva Medica

The module is worth 1 credit for a total of 10 hours of lectures. It aims to provide students with the fundamentals of pharmacodynamics and an overview of the most commonly used radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals and their use in both diagnostic and therapeutic fields.

Students are required to have knowledge of chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, and general pathology. Passing the Pharmacology module is mandatory (first semester exam: RADIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES: MRI, CT, AND ULTRASOUND: PHARMACOLOGY).

Lectures with power point presentations

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The exam consists of an oral test during which the student must demonstrate that he/she has acquired the given notions and the critical ability to argue them and make connections between them.

Pharmacodynamic: receptors, agonist and antagonist, dose-response curve. Radiopharmaceutical drugs: definition of radionuclide, radioisotopes, radiopharmaceutical for diagnosis and therapy. Generation of technetium. Adverse effects of radiations. Radiopharmaceutical for the following scintigraphy: bone, nervous system, cardiovascular, lung, thiroid/parathiroid, hepatobiliary, inflamamtion/infective processes Radiopharmaceutical used in PET Principles of radiotherapy.

It is expected that the student will know the general mechanisms of action of the drugs and will know the therapeutic-diagnostic characteristics of the most widely used radiopharmaceuticals.