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Processes in Disease for Health & Exercise Science - PATH2202 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Description Lectures, tutorials, museum/case study sessions aimed at increasing understanding of important disease processes. Comparisons between normal and abnormal cell, tisssue and organ function will be made. Includes processess of cell and tissue degeneration, acute and chronic inflammation, regeneration and repair, infection, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, embolism and infarction. Particular examples include diseases of practical importance such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, pulmonary embolism and myocardial infarction. Aberrations of cell growth introduces neoplasia with examples of common tumours. There will be particular emphasis on clinical correlation with disease processes.
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