COURSE DESCRIPTION

Language: English

Duration: 40 minutes

Topic: Pediatric Endocrinology, MPS

Speaker: Ass. Prof. ANDREA BORGO, University General Hospital of Padua, Italy

Learning Objectives 

•  Know what are the musculoskeletal manifestations of mucopolysaccharidoses and Alpha-mannosidosis

•  Recognize some precocious musculoskeletal signs suggestive for metabolic disease in order to send the patients to the right diagnostic pathway

•  Understand the orthopaedic surgical options (and their timing) in a child affected by mucopolysaccharidoses.