Pediatric Nephrology

Pre-natal development of the kidneys and urinary tract.- Post-natal renal maturation.- Congenital abnormalities of the kidneys and the urinary tract.- Stem cells and kidney regeneration.- Assessment of kidney function.- Imaging kidneys and the urinary tract.- Technical aspects of renal pathology.- Approach to the child with hematuria and/or proteinuria.- Nephrotic syndrome: classification and evaluation.- Genetic bases of nephrotic syndrome.- Congenital nephrotic syndrome.- Clinical aspects of genetic forms of nephrotic syndrome.- Inherited diseases of the glomerular basement membrane.- Steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome.- Non-genetic forms of steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome.- Membranous nephropathy.- Evaluation of children with nephritic syndrome.- IgA Nephropathy.- Henoch Schönlein Purpura Nephritis.- Renal vasculitis.- Lupus nephritis.- Autoantibodies and kidney diseases.- C3 glomerulopathies.- Atypical HUS and TTP.- Infection-related HUS.- Acute post-streptococcus glomerulonephritis.- Infections that affect the kidney (non-viral).- Viral infections and the kidney.- The kidney in sickle cell disease.- The kidney in type I diabetes.- The kidney in metabolic syndrome.- Renal Manifestations of Metabolic Disorders.- The kidney in methyl malonic acidemia.- The kidney in mitochondrial cytopathies.- Fabry disease.- Primary hyperoxaluria.- Fanconi Syndrome.- Cystinosis.- Aminoaciduria and Glycosuria.- Renal hypophosphatemia.- Inherited disorders of sodium and potassium handling.- Inherited disorders of renal magnesium handling.- Inherited disorders of renal calcium handling.- Renal Tubular Acidosis.- Inherited disorders of water handling.- Tubulointerstitial nephritis.- Sodium and Water Disorders: evaluation and management.- Potassium disorders: evaluation and management.- Clinical use of diuretics.- Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Diseases.- Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Diseases.- Renal involvement in tuberous sclerosis.- Nephronophtisis and other ciliopathies.- Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Diseases.- Urolithiasis and nephrocalcinosis.- Urinary tract infections.- Vesicoureteral reflux.- Obstructive uropathies.- Bladder disorders.- Enuresis.- Pediatric renal tumors.- Onconephrology.- Pathophysiology and epidemiology of hypertension in children.- Evaluation and management of hypertension.- Renovascular hypertension: evaluation and management.- Pathogenesis of acute kidney injury.- Evaluation and management of acute kidney injury in neonates.- Evaluation and management of acute kidney injury in children.- Nephrotoxins.- Progression of chronic kidney disease and nephroprotection.- Epidemiology and management of Chronic Kidney Disease.- Nutrition, Growth and Development.- CKD-MBD.- Anemia in CKD.- Assessment of volume status in CKD.- Peritoneal Dialysis.- Hemodialysis.- Infant dialysis.- Adequacy of dialysis.- Renal Transplantation: Evaluation of children and donors.- Renal transplantation: surgical and perioperative management.- Renal transplantation: immunosuppression.- Renal transplantation: disease recurrence.-  Renal transplantation: infectious complications.- Renal transplantation: non- infectious complications and long-term outcome.- Multi-organ transplants and the kidney in other solid organ transplantation.- Ethical issues in pediatric nephrology.- Drug dosing in abnormal kidney functions in Children with Abnormal Renal Function.- Normal reference values.