experts compared to Spoleto

Pensi and Quartini

Hepatology, an in-depth two-day study organized by the director of Santa Maria di Terni and the head of Usl Umbria 2

TERNI – A two-day comparison and a discussion at Spoleto to discuss liver transplants

This is the one organized by the director of the Complex Structure of Hepatology and Gastroenterology of the Santa Company Maria di Terni, Mariano Quartini, and by the director of the simple structure.USL Umbria 2 Department of Hepatology, Maria Oliva Pensi

The event will take place on 5 and 6 July in the conference room of the Albornoz Hotel in Spoleto with the participation of national and international experts. open for the hepatology, the subject is also of great interest in Umbria, although 39, there is no transplant center for the liver because it allows to deepen an aspect of the health important from the point of view both ethical and organizational, also referring to the relations between the centers of transplantation and the peripheral hepatological centers

The morning of July 5th (9 -11:30) will open with a roundtable that will also address ethical issues and all initiatives that can facilitate donations to offer this therapeutic opportunity to an ever increasing number of patients waiting. Participants will include Umbria health adviser Luca Barberini, director of the National Transplant Center Nanni Costa and the head of the regional transplant center Atanbadios Dovas, doctor (archaeologist) Fabrizio Soccorsi, the surgeon of Marco Vivarelli transplant, beyond that the representatives of AIDO and some transplant patients

The scientific congress that will start at 11:45 (until 14 the next day) will see the presence of many Umbrian herdsmen and some leading national and international experts from 9 different transplantation centers, which will deal with indications for emergency transplantation, chronic decompensated cirrhosis and liver tumors, early and late complications of transplantation, and future prospects for preservation of organ transplants and new indications for oncolog transplantation ic. A separate session will then be reserved for a specific project to optimize relations between the transplant centers and the peripheral centers.

The two days devoted to future scenarios of hepatology will be closed in the afternoon of July 6 (from 15:40 to 19:00)) with a satellite meeting in which you want to check the state of HCV therapy, which in Umbria has healed several hundred patients, deepening the aspects related to the favorable impact that these therapies will have in the future also from the point of view of the organizational, economic and diagnostic interventions and therapeutics to adopt in populations still at risk of infection, for example in neighboring homes and drug addicts.