The girl is the first to survive an aortoesophageal fistula caused by button battery ingestion. The baby had accidentally swallowed a button battery that had caused an aortoesophageal fistula. She...
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A new aortic valve with a simplified-technology procedure will reduce the length of hospital stays for patients undergoing minimally invasive cardiac surgery, including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), improving the...
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A liver transplant from a non-beating heart donor was performed in a hospital in southern Italy for the first time. Two kidney transplants were also performed thanks to the same...
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FIRST SIMVASTATIN TRIAL GETS UNDERWAY Protect donated livers from the risks of ischemic and reperfusion injury, improving transplants' clinical outcomes. This is the goal of the clinical research that started...
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ISMETT and SISM have signed a training agreement for future physicians Nine medical students in Palermo for one month of training at IRCCS- ISMETT. They come from China, Spain, Russia, Tunisia,...
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This morning, Lewis M. Eisenberg, U.S. Ambassador to the Italian Republic, accompanied by Mary Ellen Countryman, U.S. Consul General in Naples, and by a delegation of the U.S. Consulate in...
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A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Maltese and Sicilian governments to strengthen collaboration in the fields of transplantation and advanced treatments. This morning, in Palazzo d’Orleans, seat...
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Heart failure is affecting more than 25 million people worldwide. In Italy, heart failure affects 1 million people, of whom 70 thousand in Sicily, and is the second leading cause...
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The first two liver transplants on patients with an initially advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, treated with transarterial radioembolization (TARE), were performed at IRCCS ISMETT in Palermo, Italy. These are the first...
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ISMETT among top centers in Europe for volume of activity Ten children received a living donor liver transplant at IRCCS ISMETT over the last 12 months. This small but important...
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