Arezzo, 19 June 2024 – The Senese Aou becomes part of the Tuscan Network for Liver Transplant. The first of three information and training meetings on liver transplant will be held at the Siena hospital on Friday 21 June. The hospital-university company Senese joins the Tuscan Liver Transplant Network as a reference centre. This is the news that arrives on the eve of three training and information meetings for the creation of a network of skills in Tuscany for the management of patients suffering from terminal liver disease and primary liver tumors, as well as for the formalization and management of the pre and post transplant. The first appointment is held in Siena, at the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital, on Friday 21 June. «Becoming part of the Tuscan Network for Liver Transplant means being a reference center for the Vast South-East Area for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis or liver cancer, for their pre-transplant evaluation and for carrying out all tests and procedures required by the liver transplant protocol. Furthermore, the center will follow transplant patients in their post-transplant follow-up process.” Thus Professor Stefano Brillanti, relating to Gastroenterology and Operative Endoscopy with the task of Diagnosis and therapy of liver and biliary tract diseases. The theme of the meeting in Siena is pre-transplant. This will be followed by the one in Arezzo, on 18 October, with the focus on oncological indications for liver transplantation and, finally, there will be the one in Livorno, on 13 December, which will focus on post-transplant. «The new challenges that lie ahead in the field of terminal liver failure and liver transplantation are absolutely relevant – explains Professor Brillanti -: the increase in the average age of the recipients, often suffering from multiple co-morbidities, the new and emerging indications for transplantation, the need for standardization in the approach to hepatocellular carcinoma, the increase in the number of patients in follow-up, are just some of the critical issues that require rationalizing clinical pathways by integrating the most recent technologies into the pathways , strengthening and coordinating the different specialties and promoting the growth of skills – continues Professor Stefano Brillanti -. The meetings organized in Tuscany lay the foundations for the creation and maintenance of a widespread network of skills throughout the regional territory, integrating the knowledge of all the specialties necessary for a widespread and shared diffusion of treatment paths. The final objective – he concludes – is to offer high quality assistance throughout the regional territory.”
