A’update initiative on vascular anomalies, to encourage early diagnosis and the best treatment path by healthcare system professionals, was organized by Alessandra Bisceglia ViVa Ale ETS Foundation in collaboration with the Asp of Basilicata.
The event, entitled “Science and management policy of vascular anomalies” was held on the day of Saturday 15 June in Potenza, in the “Illustrious Doctors” Training Room of the Order of Surgeons and Dentists of Potenza.
Hall full of professionals and numerous interventions of great depth and scientific value characterized an important day for the Lucanian healthcare system.
They participated in the initiative, which guaranteed participating members 6 training credits Prominent exponents of the world of healthcare from all over Italy, including:
- Giacomo Colletti, specialist in maxillofacial surgery and associate professor at the University Hospital of Modena;
- Rosario Francesco Grasso, head of the Interventional Radiology Unit at the Bio-Medico Campus in Romewith whom the Foundation “is honored to collaborate”.
For the Institutional greetings attended, among others:
- the general director of the Local Health Authority of Potenza, Antonello Maraldo,
- the president of the Potenza Medical Association, Rocco Paternò,
- the president of the Order of Psychologists of Basilicata, Luisa Langone,
- the president of the Italian Society of Paediatrics, Eustachio Lapacciana,
- the secretary councilor of the Order of Physiotherapists of Basilicata, Claudia Pignatari.
He underlined Raffaella Restaino, head of institutional relations of the Alessandra Bisceglia Foundation:
“For 15 years now, the commitment of the ViVa Ale Foundation in the odyssey of patients with vascular anomalies has been to meet difficulties by offering free medical consultancy services, psychological support and social assistance, guiding, for the activity of advanced diagnostics and surgical therapy towards structures of the national health system or specialists with whom we have stipulated agreements or defined collaborations, taking into account, at the same time, the needs of the family; providing correct information on diagnosis and treatment centers (also for other rare pathologies) and enforceable rights”.
Said the general director of ASP Basilicata, Antonello Maraldo:
“It is an important scientific moment because it leads our doctors to have further information and better and more adequate training in the field of facilitating diagnostic-therapeutic pathways.
Today’s conference further strengthens the collaborative relationship between the Local Health Authority of Potenza and the ViVa Ale Foundation”.
The course developed into three sections, moderated by the president of the Scientific Committee of the Alessandra Bisceglia Foundation, Cosmoferruccio De Stefano and by the health director of the ASP, Luigi D’Angola.
Professor De Stefano stated:
“Vascular anomalies, which seriously affect the vascular system, are unfortunately very often not recognized in time.
The real problem is that when this happens and when the problem is recognized in some way, the patient doesn’t know where to go.
Hence the famous journeys of hope and the many difficulties.
Our goal is to clarify and explain to patients that there are locations in the national healthcare system where it is possible to receive treatment without incurring unsustainable expenses.”
Director D’Angola highlighted:
“Today’s conference touches on an extremely sensitive topic which is that of vascular anomalies and malformations. A topic that also closely concerns local healthcare companies.
In fact, beyond taking care of the patient in hospital for treatment, it is necessary to consider the post-intervention rehabilitation and psychosocial reintegration paths, also due to the aesthetic consequences of the pathology”.
