With a total of 192 transplants performed in 2017, IRCCS-ISMETT in Palermo is among the first Italian centers for number of liver, kidney, heart and lung transplants, according to the Italian National...Leggi altro

The Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e le Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (ISMETT) strengthens its pediatric surgery and abdominal transplant program with already two young patients transplanted and discharged in...Leggi altro

IRCCS ISMETT, in Palermo, recently performed its first kidney transplants with organs procured from donors without a heartbeat. The two procedures were done last week thanks to a donation from...Leggi altro

A submucosal tumor was radically removed from a patient with a full-thickness-technique endoscopic procedure, without resorting to traditional surgery. The procedure was carried out at IRCCS ISMETT, in Palermo. This...Leggi altro

Three liver transplants successfully performed at IRCCS ISMETT in Palermo using hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive donor organs with initial chronic damage. For the first time a patient not suffering from...Leggi altro

A transplant of pancreatic islets – clusters of endocrine cells in the pancreas that contain insulin-producing cells – was performed at IRCCS ISMETT in Palermo last week on a 52-year-old woman...Leggi altro

For the first time ever in the world, a young child with hepatitis C has been cured of the virus following a liver transplant, thanks to new antiviral therapy. The delicate operation,...Leggi altro

IRCCS-ISMETT’s Endoscopy Unit has received the accreditation of the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy, (SIED - Società Italiana di Endoscopia Digestiva).  This certification is evidence of the high quality standards...Leggi altro

ISMETT and the Palermo Conservatory join forces for a new health care. The collaboration, based on an agreement proposed by the president of the Palermo Conservatory V. Bellini, Gandolfo Librizzi,...Leggi altro

2017 will likely be a record year for ISMETT, given the number of transplants already performed. In a little more than six months, the Sicilian center has performed 102 transplants,...Leggi altro