PEDIATRIA E ANATOMIA PATOLOGICA

Learning Objectives

• Pediatrics

  Learning physiology, pathology, clinical and laboratory approach, therapy related to growing individuals, specific issues of preventive pediatrics, pediatric diseases from neonatal age through adolescence

• Surgical Pathology

  Skills of course: knowledge and understanding of histological diagnosis, both in inflammatory and neoplastic diseases. Pathological language learning to communicate the histological diagnosis to the patients.

Course Structure

• Pediatrics

  Academic lessons; practice according to specific calendar scheduled by the Coordinator of the Course.

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

• Surgical Pathology

  First section: general surgical pathology: examples and practical approach; laboratory visite and macroscopic anatomy

  Second section: practical understanding and communication of histological diagnosis.

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.
  

Detailed Course Content

• Pediatrics

  Neonatology

  The healthy newborn

  The newborn infant and newborn care

  Low birth weight newborn

  Neonatal asphyxia

  Neonatal jaundice

  Neonatal seizures

  Neonatal infections

  Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

  Methods to evaluate growth. Bone age

  Breast feeding

  Milk formula

  Neonatal screening

  Vaccination

  Growth failure

  Nutritional defects

  Infectious diseases

  Exanthematous diseases

  Viral diseases

  Visceral Leishmaniasis

  Asthma

  Respiratory infections

  Cystic fibrosis

  Celiac disease

  Gastroenteritis

  Primary immunodeficiencies

  Phenylketonuria

  Endocrine diseases

  Congenital hypothiroidism

  Diabetes

  Fever of unknown origin

  Mendelian diseases

  Chromosomic diseases

  Normal hematology values trough childhood

  Anemias

  Thalassemias

  Sickle Cell Disease

  Iron deficiency anemia

  Splenomegalies

  Thrombocytopenias

  Leukemias and lymphomas

  Tumours in children

• Surgical Pathology

  Reactive cellular reactions: ipertrophic, iperplastic and metaplastic changes

  Flogistic vs neoplastic diseases: diagnostic iter.

  Classification of tumours: cellular differentiation and biological markers

  Benign and malignant tumours: biological behaviour

  Grade and stage; TNM

  Predicitive and prognostic factors.

Textbook Information

• Surgical Pathology

  1- Le basi patologiche delle malattie- Patologia generale. Robbins e Cotran 8° Edizione. Elsevier.

  2- Anatomia Patologica. Le basi. Ruco L. Scarpa A. Ed. UTET