- Docente: Marcello Lanari
- Credits: 5
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
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from May 07, 2024 to May 15, 2024
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student has basic knowledge of the diseases that originate and/or manifest themselves during the development of the organism. In particular, the student is able to: - frame the processes that lead to the somato-functional maturation of the individual; - understand the specific "health needs" of the period of life from birth to adolescence; - identify the main pediatric diseases through the correct anamnestic collection and clinical reasoning to define a diagnostic hypothesis; - indicate the most appropriate investigations to confirm the diagnostic hypothesis; - know the main therapeutic interventions of infantile pathology.
Course contents
The newborn - Nutrition - Nutritional deficiencies - Vaccinations - The preterm newborn - Neonatal respiratory diseases - Jaundice - Enteritis and acute gastroenteritis - Vomiting - Recurring abdominal pain - Intolerance to cow's milk - Syndromes from malabsorption - Celiac disease and mucoviscidosis - Chronic persistent diarrhea - Food allergies - Gastroesophageal reflux and oesophagitis - Laryngitis and pseudocroup - Epiglottiditis - Bronchiolitis - Bronchial asthma - Pneumonia and Bronchopneumonia - The main cyanogenic and acyanogenic congenital heart disease - Endocarditis - Acute rheumatism (rheumatic disease) - Myocardial disease - Heart failure - Arterial hypertension - Normal values of the main blood constituents - Anemias due to decreased production (congenital, from deficiency) and from increased destruction or loss (haemolytic a., spherocytosis, from enzyme deficiency, hemoglobinopathies) - Leukocyte abnormalities - Platelet counts - Hemorrhagic diseases (haemophilias) - Consumption coagulopathy (DIC) - The lymphadenopathies - The main tumors (leukaemias, lymphomas, solid tumors) - Congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies - Atopy - Autoimmune diseases - Chronic arthritis (juvenile idiopathic arthritis) - Vasculitis (m. of Kawasaki) - Hematuria - Acute and chronic glomerulonephritis - Renal insufficiency - Nephrosis - Urinary tract infections - Vesico-ureteral reflux - Growth - Growth pathology (dwarfism) - Pubertal development - Pathology of puberty and sex (congenital adrenal-genital syndrome, pseudohermaphroditisms) - Thyroid disease - Obesity - Diabetes mellitus - Rickets - The main genetic and chromosomal diseases (Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, s. of Klinefelter) - Fever - Infectious rashes - Meningitis - TB - HIV - Acute viral hepatitis - Metabolic diseases - Lysosomal storage diseases - Pediatric Palliative Care.
Readings/Bibliography
- Pediatria Generale e Specialistica: Andrea Pession - Giacomo Faldella - CLUEB 2013
- Nelson - Textbook of Pediatrics 21th Ed. Elsevier, 2020.
Teaching methods
Frontal Teaching
Assessment methods
During the oral exam, the candidate will be asked to prepare the topics in the above program.
The end-of-course exam aims to evaluate the achievement of the teaching objectives through oral questions on the program reported and provided by clinical cases.
The final grade will be calculated according to the results obtained by making the weighted average on the basis of the credits assigned to each teaching of the Integrated Course
No pre-requisites (documents, work to be delivered before the exam date, etc.) are needed to take the exam
Teaching tools
Slides
Office hours
See the website of Marcello Lanari