Learning objectives
Assessment of growth in newborns, infants, children
and adolescents; recognition of needs of prevention
, diagnosis and treatment for the sick child, main
congenital disorders, more common acute and
chronic diseases and diseases requiring to be
referred to the specialist; knowledge of management
of sick child at hospital.
Prerequisites
The student must have succeeded in Pharmacology
examination.
Course unit content
Pediatrics is considered the internal medicine of the
child, although we should always keep in mind that
the child is not “an adult in miniature” but a distinct
and autonomous entity both in terms of physiology
and physiopathology.Under this perspective, starting
from the physiology, and developmental
stages of the child, from neonate to adolescent. the
course will focus on the various illnesses that
interest general pediatrics, as well as the different
pediatric specialization (allergology, infectious
diseases, cardiology, rheumatology,
gastroenterology, pneumology, heamatologyoncology,
etc
Full programme
• Pre term, post term healthy newborn
• Neonatal screening
• Neonatal and acquired jaundice
• Neonatal infections
• Neonatal respiratory diseases
• Neonatal metabolic disirders
• Neonatal neurologic disorders
• Neonatal hemolytic disease• Neonatal
hemorrhagic disease •SIDS:
“Sudden Infant Death Sindrome”)
• NEC
• Nutrition in pediatric age
• Food allergy
• Anaphylaxis
• Respiratory allergy and asthma
• Atopic eczema
• Urticaria
• Anemias
• Purpora
• Coagulopathies
• Leukemias
• Solid tumors in children
• Urinary tract infection
• Hematuria
• Pielonephritis
• Hemolitic-uremic syndrome
• Nephrosis
• Glomerulonephritis
• Tubulopathy
• Hearth murmur
• Arrhythmias
• Congenital cardiopathies
• Rheumatic Disease
• Hearth failure
• Kawasaki disease
• Myocarditis, pericarditis
• Upper airway infection
• Pneumonia
• Bronchiolitis
• Inhalation foreign body
• Vomiting
• Gastroesofageal reflux
• Gastroenteritis
• Malassorbtion, Celiac disease
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Infantile colic
• Recurrent abdominal pain
• Constipation
• Intestinal parasitosis
• Hepatopathies
• Growth
• Diabetes mellitus
• Puberty: phisiopathology, precocious and delayed
• Hypothyroidism
• Obesity
• Criptorchidism, ambiguous genitalia, adrenogenital
syndrome
• Short stature
• Exanthematous diseases
• Mononucleosis
• Lymphadenopathies • Mumps
• Tubercolosis in children
• Fever in children • Meningoencephalitis
• Sepsis
• Osteomyelitis
• Fever of unknown origin
• Febrile seizures
• HIV
• Pertussis
• Vaccinations
• Main metabolic diseases
• Chromosomal diseases, malformations
• Cystic fibrosis
• Immunodeficiency
• Arthritis in pediatric age
• Rickets
• Acute abdomen in children and newborns
(appendicitis, etc.)
• Urinary tract malformations
• Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
• Hirschprung disease
• Testicular torsion
• Neuropsycomotor and cognitive development.
• Infantile cerebral palsy
• Neuromuscular disorders
• Epilepsy
• Headache
• Autism
• Congenital hip dislocation
• Flat foot
• Strabismus
Bibliography
-Maurizio Vanelli ARGOMENTI DI PEDIATRIA
ISBN978-88-7847-454-3 Collana Saperi, MUP
Editore
-Castello M, Duse M. Manuale di Pediatria. Piccin
editore.
-GV Zuccotti, M. Giovannini Manuale di Pediatria,
La Pratica Clinica, Società Editrice Esculapio.
Teaching methods
Lectures, interactive lessons and discussion of
clinical cases with use of slides.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination.
Assiduity in
attendance of lessons and internship. Clinical skill
booklet.
Other information
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