Features and Benefits of IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital
San Raffaele hospital Milan – internationally approved clinical establishment, collaborating with the world’s leading therapeutic centers. Facility employs best experts who have high professional competence and have been practicing for many years. Not only direct therapeutic orientation, but also researches are implemented in 50+ areas.
Clinic’s specialists carry out complex patients therapies, paying attention not only to the pathology elimination itself, but to the prevention of its possible return and concomitant complications development. Hospital has developed a unique methodology, consisting in prescribing an individual treatment plan for each patient, based on the decision of interdisciplinary council representatives organized within San Raffaele. Thus, doctors get the opportunity to influence a specific pathology and study its interaction with other illnesses in practical therapy.
Clinic’s research activities focus on integration of clinical, general and applied scientific practices to obtain modernized therapeutic agents being able to cope with even the most heavy ailments causing ruthless and irreparable harm to organism. More than one and a half thousand scientists participate in researches performed using modern devices and entire complexes. Mostly, research purpose is a deep understanding of natural mechanisms determining the cancerous tumors occurrence and development. Here, scientists face the identification of new medical problems and the need to search for other therapeutic strategies for ailments cure.
Main departments of Barco hospital San Raffaele
- Oncological tumors hematology.
- General oncology.
- Cardio- and neurosurgery.
- Plastic surgery.
- Ophthalmology.
- Orthopedics.
- Gynecological business.
- Obstetrics and postpartum recovery.
- Neurology.
Narrow focus and clinic specializations
- Research and practical oncological pathologies therapy.
Clinic’s narrow profile specializations are cancerous tumors study and therapy. Experts work on all types of cancer affecting certain systems and organs. It was in San Raffaele, Radiation Therapy Division, that tomotherapy was first installed and put into practice. Today this division has the status of one of the most experienced and efficient worldwide.
On the San Raffaele basis, hundreds of protocols have been developed for treating cancerous pathologies developed in the prostate, central nervous system, cerebrum, pancreas, breast and other organism structures. Clinic convenes weekly with a panel of immunologists, oncologists, diagnostic experts, radiologists and surgeons to discuss programs having the potential to become new tools in the fight against cancer.
- Cardio- and neurosurgery.
Doctors are actively working on the development and implementation of new therapeutic practices for the heart ailments and neurological defects elimination. Clinic specialists use an approach based on the study and modification of molecular structures underlying the neurological ailments occurrence. Main San Raffaele activity in this industry is the fight of pathologies of neurodegenerative origin (dementia, etc.), muscle atrophy and cerebrovascular illnesses.
- Genome study and modification.
San Raffaele university hospital occupies a leading position in gene physics and therapy of rare immune system pathologies, and ailments developed at the genome level. In San Raffaele gene therapy technique based on Strimvelis stem cells implementation was developed and brought to the masses – therapeutic methodology for patients with ADA-SCID syndrome.
Accreditation and certification
- Recommendations from the Italian Health Ministry.
- It’s accredited by IRCCS (Scientific Institution for Research, Hospitalization and Health Care) for its significant contribution to medical investigations fund.
- ISO certification.
- Hospital San Raffaele Milano recognition among the best global establishments by American Newsweek edition in 2021.
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