About us
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The Department of General and Specialized Surgery "Paride Stefanini", established with the Rectoral Decree of 24 May 2000 and confirmed with D.R. prot. 0024593 of April 30, 2010, is made up of the teachers belonging to the structure and is equipped with technical-administrative staff in relation to the number of members, the volume and the nature of its activities. This endowment is subject to periodic reviews also in relation to the results achieved.
The Department of General and Specialized Surgery "Paride Stefanini" enhances the objectives and characteristics of the Department of origin, created by its first Director, Prof. Paride Stefanini. The Department's vocation was, from the beginning, aimed at the selection of differentiated activities of General Surgery, from which the Specialties of Thoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplant Surgery were derived, today as then reference to national and international level. More recently, these have been accompanied by disciplines and sub-specialist units of General Surgery (Colorectal and Digestive Surgery, Abdominal Wall Surgery, Bariatric Surgery), expressions of reality that are now well codified. The clinical and research activity of the Department is developed and articulated consistently with its specialist activities, providing a significant assistance and scientific contribution, with levels of excellence in numerous sectors. The constant and continuous invitation to participate in National and International Conferences, addressed to the Professors of the Department, confirms the prestige achieved in Italy and abroad. The didactic contribution of the Department is vast and includes the institutional participation of its Professors in the Degree Courses, the activity of the Specialization Schools of Thoracic Surgery and Vascular Surgery, of the PhD in Pathophysiology and Cardio-Thoraco-Vascular Imaging, as well as Specialized Masters in Angiology and Pelvic Floor and Rehabilitation.
Role and Mission of the Department
Development and research in the field of transplants with particular interest in organ regeneration, stem cell cultures for transplantation and use of organs from a donor with a firm heart.
Development and advanced clinical applications of vascular surgery and application of endoprosthetic surgery. Development and research of advanced ultrasound diagnostics.
Thoracic surgery, single and double lung transplantation especially for the treatment of insufficiency secondary to cystic fibrosis. Acute respiratory insufficiency treatment with ECMO and lung regeneration with normothermic perfusion of the organs to be transplanted. Videothoracoscopic surgical therapy of lung tumors.
Specialist pre and post-operative evaluation for patients for liver, kidney, pancreas and lung transplantation. Research in the field of post-operative intensive therapy for complex surgery in thoracic, vascular and abdominal surgery with particular regard to the post-operative treatment of obesity surgery. Research for the evaluation and regeneration of marginal organs for transplantation purposes.
General surgery, surgical treatment of the wall disaster and complex surgical treatments, development of laparoscopic surgery with interdisciplinary teams in the field of thoracoabdominal oncological surgery, hiatal and inguinal hernia, advanced surgery and treatment of hepato-carcinoma, biliary tract surgery and of the pancreas also by laparoscopic way, neosurgery with specific interest in the surgery of renal neoplasms with cable-atrial thrombosis. Laparoscopic surgery of adrenal tumors. Use of new technologies for the prevention of iatrogenic lesions of the biliary tract during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Use of Fluorescence with Indocyanine Green for the study of organ perfusion and sentinel lymph node in minimally invasive defensive surgery.
Development of bariatric surgery both in the preoperative metabolic phase and in the surgical and psychological follow-up.
Development in the therapy and surgery of colon and rectal cancers with particular regard to videolaparoscopic, rectal and endo-luminal coloproctological colorectal surgery.
Outpatient clinics for pre and post organ transplant follow-up.
Outpatient clinics for pre and post-operative bariatric surgery follow-up.
Outpatient clinics for pre and post endocrine surgery follow-up.
Outpatient clinics for pre and post abdominal wall surgery, laparocele, hernia.
Outpatient clinics for pre-and post-operative coloproctological surgery follow-up.
Outpatient clinics for diagnostics and endoscopic surgery of the esophagus, gastric, colorectal, treatment of pathologies of the biliary tract.