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Selected Lectures of the 15th International Workshop on Neonatology and the 40th Congress UMEMPS (Union of Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean Pediatric Societies); Cagliari (Italy); October 24th-26th, 2019 • Children of the Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean area: we can do better!
LECT 1 • THE FUTURE OF PREMATURITY • T. Boggini, M. Fumagalli, F. Mosca (Milan, Italy)
LECT 2 • NEONATAL ARTERIAL ISCHEMIC STROKE: REVIEW OF THE CURRENT GUIDELINES • E. Saliba (Tours, France)
LECT 3 • CEREBRAL WHITE MATTER: A COMMON DENOMINATOR OF PRETERM BABIES • L.A. Ramenghi (Genoa, Italy)
LECT 4 • EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE CARE OF NEWBORN INFANTS – PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE • S. Mader (Munich, Germany)
LECT 5 • OVERVIEW ON NEONATAL ANEMIA • S. Barella (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 6 • THE PLACENTA: AN IMPORTANT BUT OFTEN NEGLECTED TOOL FOR NEONATOLOGISTS • S. Rossi, S. Perrone, G. Buonocore (Siena and Parma, Italy)
LECT 7 • VITAMINS TODAY: FOCUS ON NEONATOLOGY • S. Rezzi (Epalinges, Switzerland)
LECT 8 • PERSISTENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS: THE ITALIAN EXPERIENCE AND MORE • C. Dani (Florence, Italy)
LECT 9 • NATURE OR NURTURE? THE ANSWERS FROM THE INTERGROWTH-21ST PROJECT • E. Bertino, G. Maiocco, F. Giuliani (Turin, Italy)
LECT 10 • NEONATAL JAUNDICE: WHEN TO WORRY? • E. Koç (Ankara, Turkey)
LECT 11 • NEONATAL VENTILATION IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM • C. Moretti, C. Gizzi (Rome, Italy)
LECT 12 • METABOLOMICS AND MICROBIOMICS IN INFECTIONS • V. Fanos, M. Mussap (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 13 • HUMAN BREAST MILK METABOLOMICS • F. Cesare Marincola (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 14 • HUMAN MILK MICROBIOME • D. Peroni (Pisa, Italy)
LECT 15 • GROWTH FACTORS IN MATERNAL MILK • A. Malamitsi-Puchner (Athens, Greece)
LECT 16 • MOTHERS’ QUESTIONS ON MATERNAL MILK • A. Dessì (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 17 • THE ROLE OF THE MIDWIFE • L. Kuqi (Tirana, Albania)
LECT 18 • LONG-TERM BENEFICIAL EFFECTS ON MOTHERS OF BREASTFEEDING • A.M. Paoletti, M. Neri, V. Vallerino (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 19 • OBSTETRICAL MONITORING TO PREVENT PERINATAL ASPHYXIA • S. Angioni, M.N. D’Alterio (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 20 • PERINATAL ASPHYXIA IN TERM NEWBORNS • R. Antonucci, C. Locci, L. Antonucci (Sassari and Rome, Italy)
LECT 21 • MITOCHONDRIA ASPHYXIA: THE ATP SYNTHASE AS A TARGET FOR ISCHEMIA AND REPERFUSION INJURIES • M. Bonora, G. Morciano, A. Tarocco, G. Campo, G. Garani, C. Giorgi, P. Pinton (Ferrara and Ravenna, Italy)
LECT 22 • PERINATAL ASPHYXIA: MEDICAL-LEGAL ASPECTS • E. d’Aloja, G. Bazzano, M. Ciuffi, M. Nioi, R. Demontis, E. Locci (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 23 • PERINATAL ASPHYXIA: PATHOLOGICAL ASPECTS • C. Gerosa (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 24 • IMPACT OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS ON PERINATAL PARAMETERS AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS • A. Malamitsi-Puchner (Athens, Greece)
LECT 25 • UNRAVELED MYSTERIES OF THE NEONATAL KIDNEY • V. Fanos, G. Faa (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 26 • MANDATORY VACCINATIONS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, UNDOCUMENTED INFORMATION, FALSE NEWS, AND THE IMPACT ON VACCINATION UPTAKE • A. Villani, E. Bozzola, R. Russo, L. Nicolosi, A. Grandin (Rome and Benevento, Italy)
LECT 27 • CHRONIC COUGH IN CHILDREN: DIAGNOSTIC AND MANAGEMENT APPROACH • D.A. Plesca (Bucharest, Romania)
LECT 28 • BRONCHIOLITIS TODAY • D. Peroni, G. Nuzzi, I. Trambusti (Pisa, Italy)
LECT 29 • THE CHILD WITH SEVERE ASTHMA: INFECTIONS AND MORE • G. Piacentini (Verona, Italy)
LECT 30 • RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONIC LUNG DISEASES • E. Baraldi (Padua, Italy)
LECT 31 • NUTRITION IN PEDIATRICS: PREVENTION OF NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES • E. Verduci (Milan, Italy)
LECT 32 • OVERVIEW ON CHRONIC NEONATAL DIARRHEA • E. Aramouni (Beirut, Lebanon)
LECT 33 • PROBIOTICS IN PEDIATRICS: WHERE WE ARE HEADING • F. Savino (Turin, Italy)
LECT 34 • PEDIATRIC GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES • K. Gargary (Duhok, Iraq)
LECT 35 • SYRIANS, PALESTINIANS AND IRAQI REFUGEES IN LEBANON • R. Sacy, Y. Nassif, D. Hamod, K. Pia (Beirut, Lebanon)
LECT 36 • GUT MICROBIOTA AS A TARGET FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF FOOD ALLERGY • R. Berni Canani (Naples, Italy)
LECT 37 • PRECISION NUTRITION IN PEDIATRICS • A. Staiano (Naples, Italy)
LECT 38 • FEW RULES FOR PEDIATRIC NUTRITION • G.V. Zuccotti, V. Fabiano (Milan, Italy)
LECT 39 • RECURRENT WHEEZING AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX IN CHILDREN – 5 YEAR REPORT • V.V. Lupu, I. Miron, C. Gavrilovici, A. Lupu (Iasi, Romania)
LECT 40 • GASTROINTESTINAL INVOLVEMENT IN AUTISTIC CHILDREN: THE METABOLOMICS LESSON • A. Noto, C. Fattuoni, M. Mussap, L. Barberini, M. Siracusano, L. Mazzone, R. Francavilla, P. Curatolo, V. Fanos (Cagliari, Rome and Bari, Italy)
LECT 41 • NEONATAL HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; GOLDEN HOUR • R. Falsaperla, M.G. Aguglia (Catania, Italy)
LECT 42 • HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY: MANAGEMENT FROM DELIVERY ROOM TO NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT – “IDEAL TIMING FOR IDEAL BRAIN PROTECTION” • E. Gitto (Messina, Italy)
LECT 43 • NEONATAL CARDIAC EMERGENCIES • P. Neroni, F. Bardanzellu, D. Manus, M.A. Farina, V. Fanos (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 44 • STABILIZATION AND TRANSPORT OF NEWBORNS WITH CARDIAC DISEASE • D. Manus, P. Neroni, M.A. Farina, R. Pintus, V. Fanos (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 45 • INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURE IN NEWBORNS • M. Chessa, F. D’Aiello, D. Negura, D. Basile, A. Micheletti (San Donato Milanese, Italy)
LECT 46 • THE NEONATAL ECG: HOW TO APPROACH THE ECG OF THE NEWBORN AND WHAT TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY FROM IT • C. Cavalli, A. Garavelli, A. Mani (Cremona, Italy)
LECT 47 • CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT AND GENETIC SYNDROMES • M.A. Farina, P. Neroni, D. Manus, V. Fanos (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 48 • CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE: WHAT PAEDIATRICIANS SHOULD KNOW • P.P. Bassareo (Dublin, Ireland)
LECT 49 • ANESTHESIA AND THE DEVELOPING BRAIN • G. Finco, S. Sardo, M. Musu (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 50 • END-OF-LIFE MANAGEMENT: ETHICS VERSUS REALITY • Y. Nassif, S. Slim (Beirut, Lebanon)
LECT 51 • MEDICAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE ITALIAN SITUATION • E. d’Aloja, M. Ciuffi, A. Chighine, M. Nioi, R. Demontis (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 52 • MEDICAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE SPANISH SITUATION • M. Lorente (Granada, Spain)
LECT 53 • CLINICAL APPROACH TO THE DYSMORPHIC CHILD • K. Boduroğlu (Ankara, Turkey)
LECT 54 • SLEEP-DISORDERED BREATHING IN A PEDIATRIC SETTING • M. Zaffanello, L. Tenero, M. Piazza, G. Piacentini (Verona, Italy)
LECT 55 • HEART AND PERINATAL PROGRAMMING • P.P. Bassareo (Dublin, Ireland)
LECT 56 • CYSTIS ECHINOCOCCUS BOTH IN HEART AND LUNG, THE FIRST CASE IN ALBANIA • N. Maliqari, A. Koja, D. Cela, A. Baboci, A. Veshti, V. Vanini, L. Teneqexhi (Tirana, Albania)
LECT 57 • YOUNG ADULTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE • M. Chessa, F. D’Aiello, D. Negura, D. Basile, S. Flocco, A. Micheletti (San Donato Milanese, Italy)
LECT 58 • METABOLIC EMERGENCIES IN NEONATES • H. Mansour (Beirut, Lebanon)
LECT 59 • THE BLEEDING NEONATE: OLD DIAGNOSTIC AND OLD THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES IN A NEW ERA • G. Mitsiakos (Thessaloniki, Greece)
LECT 60 • RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE • E. Koç (Ankara, Turkey)
LECT 61 • EVALUATION AND OUTCOME OF NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE IN NEWBORNS • M. Vendemmia (Naples, Italy)
LECT 62 • THE INFANT OF DIABETIC MOTHER • A. Dessì (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 63 • MENTAL HEALTH IN CHILDREN WITH NEOPLASMS • A. Godo, E. Nastas, M. Xhafa, D. Bali, M. Kapllanaj, M. Kreka, I. Shira (Tirana, Albania)
LECT 64 • GYNECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS • A.M. Fulghesu, C. Succu (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 65 • THE SCHOOL OF PEDIATRICS IN EMERGING COUNTRIES: THE ROLE OF ITALIAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION • G.B. Parigi (Pavia, Italy)
LECT 66 • CARDIOSURGERY IN EMERGING COUNTRIES • A. Giamberti (Milan, Italy)
LECT 67 • PEDIATRIC FELLOWS IN AFRICA • F. Pistolesi (Cagliari, Italy; Chiulo, Angola)
LECT 68 • AUTISM: PATHOGENESIS, PREVALENCE, AND COMORBIDITY • S. Lundström (Gothenbürg, Sweden)
LECT 69 • OMICS IN AUTISM • M. Mussap (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 70 • PANDAS SYNDROME: WHAT IS NEW? • D. Pruna, S. Cossu, M. Asunis, S. Dettori, N. Ronzano (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 71 • SUBSTANCE USE AND MISUSE IN ADOLESCENTS • N. Kanbur (Ankara, Turkey)
LECT 72 • CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY? THE CAPICE PROJECT • M. Manchia, V. Fanos (Cagliari, Italy; Halifax, NS, Canada)
LECT 73 • ANOREXIA • A. Ciubara (Galati, Romania)
LECT 74 • NEONATAL TRANSPORT IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES: PROCESSES, STRATEGIES, AND CHALLENGES • S. Rugolotto, C. Fanni, C. Loddo, F. Stefanachi (Rovigo, Italy)
LECT 75 • ULTRASOUNDS IN NEONATOLOGY • D. Hamod (Beirut, Lebanon)
LECT 76 • THE ROLE OF VITAMIN D IN NEONATOLOGY AND PEDIATRICS • R. Antonucci, M.G. Clemente, C. Locci, L. Antonucci (Sassari and Rome, Italy)
LECT 77 • CRISPONI SYNDROME • G. Crisponi, F. Rutsch, L. Crisponi (Cagliari, Italy; Münster, Germany)
LECT 78 • TYPE I DIABETES: THE ROLE OF THE EXPOSOME • M. Songini, C. Mannu (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 79 • LIPIDOMICS IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY • R. Pintus, A. Dessì, V. Fanos (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 80 • LEONARDO DA VINCI: PAINTER AND ANATOMICAL INVESTIGATOR 500 YEARS LATER • L. Cataldi, V. Fanos (Rome and Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 81 • CAKUT: THE VALUE OF ULTRASOUNDS • C. Porcu, G. Ledda, R. Pintus, C. Perna, V. Fanos, L. Saba (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 82 • CAKUT: THE VALUE OF CLINICS • G. Masnata (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 83 • NON-FAMILIAL HEMATURIA • N. Hooman (Tehran, Iran)
LECT 84 • NEPHROGENIC SYNDROME OF INAPPROPRIATE ANTIDIURESIS • F. Bardanzellu, M.C. Pintus, V. Fanos, M.A Marcialis (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 85 • RENAL MANIFESTATIONS OF VASCULITIS IN CHILDREN • O. Soylemezoglu (Ankara, Turkey)
LECT 86 • CLEFT-PALATE-LIPS • S. Oddini Carboni (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 87 • THE HEALING WITH MINIMALLY VISIBLE SCAR – OUR THIRTEEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH NEONATES CLEFT LIP SURGERY • J. Borský, M. Jurovčík, L. Jaklová, P. Dytrych, J. Skřivan, J. Velemínská (Prague, Czech Republic)
LECT 88 • TONGUE TIE – FROM EMBRYOLOGY TO TREATMENT • A. Piras Denotti (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 89 • THE ORAL MICROBIOTA: SILENT ENEMY OR NECESSARY BACTERIAL TISSUE? • G. Orrù (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 90 • EARLY ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT: WHY, WHEN AND HOW • M. Maddalone (Milan, Italy)
LECT 91 • NEONATAL CARDIOGENIC SHOCK: WHAT IS RIGHT? • M. Limone, P. Neroni, D. Manus, M.A. Farina, V. Fanos (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 92 • A CHALLENGING CASE OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX • F. Olivero, M. Magistrali, L. Schena, A. Licari, G.L. Marseglia (Pavia, Italy)
LECT 93 • A RARE CAUSE OF FAILURE TO THRIVE: DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH AND DISEASE COURSE • F. Guerra, E. Curridori, E. Flore, M. Balzarini, M. Marica, P. Moi (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 94 • A CASE OF RECURRENT INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION • M. Votto, A. Raffaele, A. Licari, L. Altieri, A. Apicella, M. Caironi, M. De Filippo, G.L. Marseglia (Pavia, Italy)
LECT 95 • A STRANGE NYSTAGMUS: CLINICAL EVALUATION OF "DANCING EYES" • G. di Pietro, F. Lirosi, S. Cossu, A. Nonnis, R. Mura, D. Pruna (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 96 • IMMUNE SYSTEM OUT OF CONTROL: A CLINICAL CASE ON THE VERGE OF IMMUNODEFICIENCY AND IMMUNE DYSREGULATION • R. Castagnoli (Pavia, Italy)
LECT 97 • NEW DIAGNOSTIC POSSIBILITIES FOR NEONATAL SEPSIS • C. Tzialla (Pavia, Italy)
LECT 98 • HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA: DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT • G. Aramouni (Bellevue, Lebanon)
LECT 99 • (MIS)PERCEPTIONS, METAPHORS, AND STEREOTYPES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT • C. Gavrilovici, V.V. Lupu, I. Miron (Iasi, Romania)
LECT 100 • SHORT STATURE MANAGEMENT • B. Al-Zoubi (Amman, Jordan)
LECT 101 • PARTICULARITIES OF PEDIATRIC ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA IN THE 5 YEARS FOLLOW-UP OF IASI ONCOLOGY UNIT • I. Miron, V.V. Lupu, C. Gavrilovici, C. Rusu, M. Alecsa (Iasi, Romania)
LECT 102 • HOW PHYTOTHERAPY COULD HELP PAEDIATRICIANS • M. Biagi (Siena, Italy)
LECT 103 • PHYTOTHERAPY IN THE FIRST 1,000 DAYS OF LIFE AND BEYOND • O. Al Jamal (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 104 • COLDS AND COUGHS IN CHILDREN • G. Trapani (Sanremo, Italy)
LECT 105 • PHYTOTHERAPY FOR SKIN DISEASES • V. Masci (Rome, Italy)
LECT 106 • WHEN TO CHOOSE HERBAL REMEDIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS (UTI) IN CHILDREN. FOCUS ON CRANBERRY • D. Careddu (Novara, Italy)
LECT 107 • HERBAL REMEDIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF SLEEP DISORDERS IN CHILDREN • L. Zanino (Turin, Italy)
LECT 108 • EVALUATION SCORE OF THE PARENTAL COMPETENCY IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS • I. Demurtas, R. Pintus, C. Bicchiri (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 109 • PRETERM BIRTH REPRESENTS A TRAUMATIC EVENT IN A CRITICAL PERIOD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM • L. Melis (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 110 • THE SKIN OF CRITICAL NEWBORN, BETWEEN EVIDENCE AND GOOD PRACTICE • E. Bernabei (Aversa, Italy)
LECT 111 • THE ITALIAN NEONATOLOGY NURSE TODAY • D. Pisano (Cagliari, Italy)
LECT 112 • UPDATE ON PATHOGENESIS & MANAGEMENT OF KAWASAKI SYNDROME (DISEASE) • A.M. El-Halabi (Amman, Jordan)
LECT 113 • DONKEY MILK: A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR HEALTH OF CHILDREN • E. Bertino, C. Peila, S. Sottemano, G. Maiocco, S. Deantoni, M. Giribaldi, L. Cavallarin (Turin and Grugliasco, Italy)
LECT 114 • STRATEGIES TO REDUCE MEDICATION ERRORS IN THE NICU • M. Pierro, G. Como (Brescia and Trento, Italy)