PEDIATRIA E ANATOMIA PATOLOGICA
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff
Scientific field
Term / Semester: 1°
- PEDIATRIA GENERALE: Andrea Di Cataldo
- ANATOMIA PATOLOGICA: Lidia Puzzo
Scientific field
- MED/38 - GENERAL AND SUBSPECIALTY PAEDIATRICS
- MED/08 - PATHOLOGY
Term / Semester: 1°
Learning Objectives
- PEDIATRIA GENERALEKnowledge of stages of child development and of the major diseases of infants and children.
- ANATOMIA PATOLOGICAAcquisition 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 GENERALE1. 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