PEDIATRIA E ANATOMIA PATOLOGICA

Learning Objectives

• PEDIATRIA GENERALE
  Knowledge of stages of child development and of the major diseases of infants and children.
• ANATOMIA PATOLOGICA
  Acquisition of the basic elements relevant for evaluation of anatomical and clinical correlations of the main diseases
  

Detailed Course Content

• PEDIATRIA GENERALE
  - Semiotic in paediatrics
  - Mendelian diseases
  - Chromosomal diseases
  o Down Syndrome
  o Turner Syndrome
  o Klinefelter Syndrome
  - Neonatal screening
  - Healthy infant's features and adjustment to the extra-uterine life
  - Normal Growth
  - Causes of small gestational age
  - Perinatal asphyxia
  - Neonatal jaundice
  - Infantile convulsions
  - Neonatal infections
  - Infant's nutrition
  - Natural breastfeeding, adapted milk, weaning
  - Infant's gastroenteritis
  - Obligatory and recommended vaccinations
  - Rheumatic disease
  - Allergic diseases:
  o Allergic dermatitis (rash)
  o Asthma
  - Cough and Dyspnoea
  - Bronchiolitis
  - Bronchopneumonia
  
  - Acute diarrhoea
  - Cystic fibrosis
  - Celiac disease
  - Urinary infections
  - Infectious diseases:
  o Streptococcus infection
  o Pertussis
  o Brucellosis
  o Rickettsiosis
  o Leishmaniasis
  o Measles
  o Rubella
  o Roseola infantum
  o Varicella
  o Mumps
  o EBV infection
  - Congenital metabolic diseases
  o Phenylketonuria
  - Intracranial hypertension
  - Meningitis and Encephalitis
  - Phakomatosis:
  o Neurofibromatosis
  o Tuberous sclerosis
  -Endocrine diseases
  o Diabetes
  o Congenital hypothyroidism
  o Adrenogenital syndrome
  -Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
  - Normal hematologic values in childhood
  - Iron deficiency anaemia
  -Haemolytic anaemia
  -Haemoglobin disorders
  o Thalassemia
  o Sickle cell anaemia
  -Congenital immunodeficiency
  -Acquired immunodeficiency and HIV infection
  -Splenomegaly
  - Lymphadenopathy
  - Low platelet count causes
  -Acute leukaemia
  - Main paediatric solid tumours
  
  Prof. Andrea Di Cataldo
  
  

Textbook Information

• PEDIATRIA GENERALE
  1. Rudolph-Kademi-Overby -Manuale di pediatria - McGraw Hill
  2. Careddu Castello – Pediatria generale e specialistica – Ambrosiana
  3. Bona G-Miniero R Pediatria Pratica – Minerva Medica
  4. Nelson Manuale di Pediatria - Elsevier