Learning objectives
Provide students with basic and specialistic knowledge of pediatrics.
Course unit content
<br />Programme of the course: <br />
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The normal neonate: clinical examination and physiological phenomena <br />
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Breast-feeding and diet in the first year of life <br />
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Neonatal infections? <br />
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Hearing risk factors in the neonate: <br />
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Neonatal Respiratory Diseases (RDS) <br />
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Neurological diseases in the preterm neonate <br />
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Major malformation syndromes (with particular reference to hearing problems) <br />
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Neonatal icterus <br />
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Neonatal hemolytic diseases <br />
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Fetal and neonatal circulation <br />
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Physiological and pathological growth <br />
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Pathophysiology and clinics of the main congenital cardiopathies <br />
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Inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. <br />
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Bronchiolitis <br />
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Bronchitis and pneumonia <br />
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Bronchial asthma <br />
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Diagnosis and treatment of juvenile onset Diabetes Mellitus <br />
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Coarctation of the aorta <br />
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Main infantile cardiac arrhythmias <br />
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Rickets <br />
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Acute and chronic enteritis and various types of malabsorption? <br />
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Glomerulonephritis and nephrosis? <br />
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Urinary Tract infections. <br />
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Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis <br />
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Rheumatic disease <br />
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Exanthematic and infectious diseases: Measles, Rubella, Scarlet Fever, Mumps, Whooping Cough, Hepatitis, <br />
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Infectious glandular fever, Meningitis and Meningoencephalitis <br />
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Pediatric allergies <br />
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Puberty: physiological and pathological (Precocious and late puberty, Precocious pseudopuberty) <br />
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Convulsions in the child? <br />
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Mandatory and optional vaccinations <br />
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The Pediatrics Course also includes practical exercises at the In-patient’s Ward of the ofPediatrics Dept. <br />
Bibliography
Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics Waldo E. Nelson (Editor), Richard E. Behrman (Editor), Robert Kliegman (Editor)
