Presentation
The Liver Study Centre Clinic was officially inaugurated on 21st January, 2005. It comprises rooms for out-patients
and personnel offices, located on the XII floor of the medical tower
of the Hospital at Cattinara.
The Liver Study Centre Clinic is an institute
which operates at the national and international levels in the study of hepatic
pathology, joining research and clinical activity. With a commitment to assist
the person.
Il CCSF is open from Monday to Friday from 7.30 to 19.30.
What the CCSF offers:
- First visit and follow-up
- Consultations in the wards
- Clinical research
- Evaluation, preparation and assistance for transplant
CCSF services:
- Out-patient visits
- day-hospital
- (paracentesis, biopsy, angiography, hepatic cyst alcoholisation)
- blood collection
- blood letting
- endovenous therapy
Clinical and research aspects:
- screening of the population (regional and national reference point for
epidemiological investigations and the cost of liver disease);
- appropriateness, efficacy and certainty of treatment for liver disease
by the adoption or experimentation of specific protocols;
- efficiency of the assistance services provided with savings derived from
the progressive abandonment of inappropriate interventions and significant
de-hospitalisation;
- adoption of "diagnostic and therapeutic packets" (ref.
GEOT protocol, Dionysos project screening, etc.);
- elaboration of diagnostic protocols;
- information, training and updating of health operators;
- basic scientific research applied to hepatic pathologies using sophisticated
technologies.
- national and international attraction point for researchers (clinical and
basic) in the field of hepatology;
- national and international clinical and scientific reference centre.