Pioneers of Medicine and Medical Breakthroughs in Taiwan 

Introduction (Prelude)

NTU MOOC course information & QAs

Glossary for this course

2-1: Dialogue before you start

2-1-1: Introduction

2-1-2: Route of transmission/prevention

2-1-3: The detection and measurement of HBV infection

2-1-4: Natural history of HBV infection

2-1-5: Management of chronic hepatitis B

2-1-6: When to START antiviral therapy?

2-1-7: The efficacy of long-term therapy

2-1-8: Prophylactic antiviral therapy

2-1-9: How to cure hepatitis B?

Extended Reading

W2-1 Quiz

2-2: Dialogue before you start

2-2-1: Introduction

2-2-2: Hepatitis B Vaccine Program in Taiwan

2-2-3: Problems that remain to be solved for the global control of hepatitis B and related diseases

W2-2 Quiz

3: Dialogue before you start

3-1: Introduction

3-2: Adverse influences of renal failure

3-3: Progression and staging of chronic kidney disease

3-4: The landscape of renal disease in Taiwan

3-5: What happens to the kidney in the elderly?

3-6: Risk factors for end-stage renal disease in Taiwan

3-7: The unprecedented high rate of end-stage renal disease in Taiwan

3-8: Renal supportive care and reimbursement schemes in Taiwan

3-9: Frailty

3-10: Frail renal phenotype

3-11: Frailty as a criterion to screen for and recognize those with need of renal hospice

3-12: Caring for renal patients at terminal status

3-13: Renal supportive care in Taiwan

3-14: Conclusion

Extended Reading

W3 Quiz

4: Dialogue before you start

4-1: Part one: Introduction

4-2: End-stage renal disease

4-3: End-stage renal disease in Taiwan

4-4: Treatment for end-stage renal disease

4-5: Hemodialysis

4-6: Peritoneal dialysis

4-7: Conundrum for end-stage renal disease care

4-8: Part two: Outcomes of living-related kidney transplantation

4-9: Benefits of living-related kidney transplantation

4-10: Risks of living-related kidney transplantation

4-11: History of renal transplantation

4-12: Renal transplantation techniques

4-13: The role of immunosuppressive drugs

4-14: Renal transplantation in National Taiwan University Hospital

Extended Reading

W4 Quiz

5: Dialogue before you start

5-1: Introduction

5-2: How does ECMO work?

5-3: When and why to use ECMO?

5-4: Application of ECMO: cardiac arrest and pulmonary embolism

5-5: Application of ECMO: H1N1 and COVID-19

5-6: ECPR: Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation

W5 Quiz

Final conclusion