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

An integrated center for research and high specialty care is born in Italy for the benefit of the patients and of the economic development of Southern Italy and of the...Leggi altro

From Denmark to Sicily to find hope Martin and Sophie are two Danish children, 11 and 9 years old, respectively. Both were suffering from a condition that causes obstruction of...Leggi altro

ISMETT’s Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit has received the accreditation of the Italian Society of Thoracic Surgery, (SICT - Società Italiana di Chirurgia Toracica). ISMETT is the first hospital in...Leggi altro

Today the U.S. Consul General in Naples, Mary Ellen Countryman, and Political and Economic Officer Dana Murray, visited the Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (ISMETT)....Leggi altro