Imaging in Neonates

Michael Riccabona, MD, worked at the Department of Radiology's Division of Paediatric Radiology at the Medical University and University Hospital Graz, Austria. After his recent retirement, he is still lecturing at the University and internationally.

Prof. Riccabona was the president of ESPR in 2015 and is now an honorary member of ESPR, GPR and OERG. He is also a fellow of AIUM and a past president of the society of German-speaking pediatric radiologists (GPR). He was chair of the paediatric section of the Austrian Ultrasound Society (OEGUM) and the Austrian Radiological Society (OERG). He has and is engaged in numerous teaching activities throughout the world, particularly also in outreach settings, and editor of several books as well as author of numerous book chapters.

Introduction.- Clinical basics and remarks: Why and when do neonatologists need imaging.- Prenatal imaging: What a neonatologist might like to know.- Postnatal imaging in babies with prenatally diagnosed malformations or conditions.- Pre-and postoperative imaging in neonates.- Image guided interventions in newborns.-  Neonatal neuroimaging.- Chest and lung imaging in preterms and neonates.- Imaging in the neonatal heart.- Urogenital radiology in neonates.- Imaging the neonatal gastrointestinal tract.- How to image the neonatal musculoskeletal tract.- Neonatal imaging in syndromic or metabolic and inherited disease, hormonal conditions, and other systemic diseases.- Imaging after birth trauma and in suspected non-accidental or inflicted injury.