Pediatrics and pathological anatomy

Module General 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

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.

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