CONTENTSChapter 1 The Scope of Pediatrics (1)Chapter 2 Child Growth and Development (2)Child physical growth (2)Common growth concerns (7)Development and behavior (10)Adolescence growth and development (22)Adolescence behavior and psychologicalhealth (26)Chapter 3 Child Health Care (31)Guideline for childhood and adolescence health care (31)Planned immunization (31)Chapter 4 Childhood Nutrition and Nutritional Disorders (40)Nutritional requirements (40)Infant feeding (49)Nutrition support (53)Malnutrition (undernutrition) (56)Obesity (56)Vitamin D deficiency (58)Chapter 5 The Newborn Infant (61)Overview (61)Characteristics of full term infant and premature infant (62)Care of the well new-born infant (67)Care of preterm infant (69)Perinatal asphyxia (72)Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (76)Intracranial hemorrhage (78)Hyaline membrane disease (81)Meconium aspiration syndrome (82)Infections in the newborn infant (83)Jaundice and hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn (89)Hemolytic disease of the newborn (92)Chapter 6 Genetic and Metabolic Diseases (95)Genetic disease (95)Inborn errors of metabolism (101)Chapter 7 Immunodeficiency Diseases (108)Development of the immune system (108)Immunodeficiency diseases (109)Investigation of immunodeficiency (112)Chapter 8 Rheumatic Diseases (114)Rheumatic fever (114)Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (116)Anaphylactoid purpura (Henochsch？nlein purpura) (118)Kawasaki disease (119)Chapter 9 Infectious Diseases (122)Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (122)Measles (rubeola) (123)Poliomyelitis (126)Varicella (chickenpox) (127)Infectious mononucleosis (Epstein-Barrvirus) (129)Mumps (131)Shigellosis (bacillary dysentery) (132)Tuberculosis (133)Candidiasis (137)Cryptococcosis (140)Enterobiasis (pinworms) (141)Ascariasis (142)Hookworm (142)Chapter 10 Gastrointestinal Tract (144)Structure of the gastrointestinal tract (144)Diagnostic modalities in gastroenterology (146)Gastroesophageal reflux (148)Peptic diseases (149)Acute infectious diarrhea (gastroenteritis)(153)Chronic diarrhea (154)Chapter 11 Diseases of the Respiratory-system (157)Growth and develepment (157)Assessment of respiratory disease (158)Acute upper respiratory infections (159)Acute pharyngitis (160)Acute bronchitis (162)Bronchiolitis (163)Pneumonia (164)Asthma (168)Chapter 12 Cardiovascular Diseases (181)Fetal circulation and circulatory changes after birth (181)Diagnostic evaluation (184)Congenital heart disease (194)Myocarditis (205)Infective endocarditis (207)Disorders of rate and rhythm arrhythmias(208)Chapter 13 Kidney and Urinary Tract (217)Developmental changes in renal function (217)Evaluation of the kidney and urinary tract (218)Hematuria (220)Renal parenchymal anomalies (222)Urinary tract infections (222)Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (225)Nephrotic syndrome (227)Renal tubular acidosis (228)Chapter 14 Hematologic Disorders (230)Developmental changes in hematopoiesis and normal hematologic values (230)Anemias (231)Iron deficiency anemia (233)Megaloblastic anemia (235)Hereditary spherocytosis (236)Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (238)Hemoglobinopathies (239)Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (243)Hemophilia (245)Leukemia (247)Langerhans cell histiocytosis (252)Chapter 15 Neurologic and Muscular Disorders (254)Assessment of neurologic and muscular disease (254)Seizure disorders (259)Bacterial meningitis (275)Viral infections of CNS (277)Cerebral palsy (277)Guillain-Barre syndrome (278)Myasthenia gravis (280)Chapter 16 Disease of the Endocrine System (282)General concepts (282)Congenital hypothyroidism (284)Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (286)Growth hormone deficiency (290)Diabetes mellitus (295)Sexual precocity (303)Chapter 17 Fluid，Electrolyte，and Acidbase Disorders and Therapy (306)Regulation of body fluids，electrolytes，and tonicity (306)Acid-base balance (307)Fluid and electrolyte management (308)Acid-base disturbances (314)Chapter 18 Critical Care (316)Cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation (316)Acute respiratory failure (321)Congestive heart failure (324)Shock (329)Renal failure (334)Poisonings (338)Chapter 19 Information Technology in Pediatrics (347)Continuing medical education (347)Clinical support (351)Patient education (355)English-Chinese Vocabulary (356)