Pathogen: Mumps orthorubulavirus
Also known as
- Epidemic parotitis
Showing posts with label paediatrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paediatrics. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 March 2020
Saturday, 10 August 2019
Diphtheria
Disease class: Bacterial infection
This is a notifiable disease. This means that all diagnosed cases must be reported to the national Public Health services.
Pathogen
Saturday, 20 July 2019
Hypospadias
Disease class: Penile diseases
Definition
- This refers to the development of the urethral opening at an abnormal location along the male genitalia.
Epidemiology
- Occurs in one in 250 males.
Friday, 12 July 2019
Saturday, 6 July 2019
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
[Paediatrics] Introduction
Paediatricians specialise in diseases of infants, children and adolescents.
There is significant overlap with medical genetics. Medical toxicology often involves paediatric patients. Most medical and surgical specialists can subspecialise in paediatrics.
Etymology
Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidion) = childAncient Greek ιατρός (iatros) = healer
Subspecialties
- Neonatology
- Hebiatrics (adolescent medicine)
- Paediatric psychiatry (child psychiatry)
- Paediatric oncology
- Paediatric cardiology
- Paediatric endocrinology
History taking
Physical examination
Common presentations:
- Faltering weight (failure to thrive)
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal diseases and abnormalities
Diseases:
- Varicella
- Laryngotracheobronchitis (Croup)
- Bronchiolitis
- Epiglottitis
- Asthma
- Type 1 diabetes
- Congenital heart disease
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of the great vessels
- Lactose intolerance
- Foreign body aspiration
- Foreign body ingestion
- Poisoning
- Nocturnal enuresis
- Down syndrome
- Intussusception
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Pyloric stenosis
- Duodenal atresia
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Laryngomalacia
- Laryngotracheal stenosis
- Laryngeal papillomatosis
- Turner syndrome
- Angelman syndrome
- Kallmann syndrome
Friday, 14 June 2019
Inborn errors renal tubular transport
Disease class: Kidney diseases
Types
- acidosis, Renal tubular
- Bartter syndrome
- Dent diseas
- Fanconi syndrome
- Gitelman syndrome
- glycosuria, Renal
- hypophosphataemia, Familial
- Liddle syndrome
- Oculocerebrorenal syndrome
- Pseudohypoaldosteronism
- Renal aminoacidurias
Immunologic deficiency syndromes
Disease class: Immune system diseases
Types
- Agammaglobulinaemia
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- Common variable immunodeficiency
- Dysgammaglobulinaemia
- HIV infections
- Deltaretrovirus infections
- Leukocyte-adhesion deficiency syndrome
- Lymphopoenia
- Phagocyte bactericidal dysfunction
- Severe combined immunodeficiency
This class includes all diseases caused by underactivity of the components of the immune system.
Patients with these diseases have a significantly increased probability of severe or life-threatening infections.
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Slipped epiphyses
Disease class: Bone diseases
Types
This refers to displacement of the epiphysis (the outermost end) of an affected bone from the metaphysis (the growth plate).
Developmental bone diseases
Disease class: Bone diseases
Types
- Acro-osteolysis
- Basal cell nevus syndrome
- Dwarfism
- Dysostoses
- Funnel chest
- Gigantism
- Leg length inequality
- Marfan syndrome
- Osteochondrodysplasias
- osteolysis, Essential
- Pectus carinatum
- Platybasia
- Proteus syndrome
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