IBD centres in Italy
14 hospitals with a dedicated service for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Listed alphabetically by city — not ranked.
Bologna
IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna (Policlinico di Sant'Orsola)
The Struttura Semplice Dipartimentale per le Malattie Infiammatorie Croniche Intestinali at Policlinico di Sant'Orsola is an inpatient-plus-outpatient structure and part of the Emilia-Romagna regional reference network for inflammatory bowel disease. It descends from the study-and-treatment centre for these diseases founded in the 1970s. It is one of Italy's largest IBD centres by patient volume, handling complex cases from across the country.
Brescia
Fondazione Poliambulanza Istituto Ospedaliero
The Ambulatorio IBD is Poliambulanza's dedicated clinic for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, part of its Gastroenterology and Endoscopy unit and staffed by the simple operating unit for inflammatory bowel disease. Patients can complete the whole diagnostic and treatment pathway in the hospital, with reserved lists for follow-up visits and tests. The team works with surgeons, rheumatologists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists and radiologists.
1 named clinician
Brescia
ASST degli Spedali Civili di Brescia
The Ambulatorio M.I.C.I. within the Gastroenterology department at Spedali Civili di Brescia offers a full inflammatory bowel disease pathway, from specialist visits and diagnostics to conventional and second-line therapies including biotechnological drugs and small molecules. It runs as part of a multidisciplinary IBD-TEAM with dedicated medical-nursing staff for infusional therapy, and provides dietary and psychological support. Joint medical-surgical clinics are held weekly.
2 named clinicians
Florence
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi
The Centro malattie infiammatorie croniche intestinali (MICI) is a regional reference centre (Centro di Riferimento Regionale) belonging to the Gastroenterology department at Careggi. It is staffed by gastroenterologists experienced in inflammatory bowel disease, supported by a dedicated nurse case manager and a data manager. Specialist trainees from the University of Florence and the digestive endoscopy team contribute to its activity.
Milan
Ospedale Luigi Sacco — ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco (Gastroenterologia)
A dedicated outpatient clinic for Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, indeterminate colitis and microscopic colitis within the gastroenterology department at Ospedale Luigi Sacco. It works closely with the hospital's surgery unit and with a multidisciplinary team from rheumatology, dietetics, infectious diseases and psychiatry. A second-level clinic treats IBD patients with biologic drugs on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
Milan
IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
The Centro IBD per le Malattie Infiammatorie Croniche Intestinali is San Raffaele's dedicated inflammatory bowel disease centre, part of the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit. It brings together a medical-nursing team with dedicated case managers who build individual care pathways for patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The centre offers innovative diagnostics and monitoring and runs an active clinical research programme.
3 named clinicians
Monza
Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori — S.C. Gastroenterologia
The Centro IBD of San Gerardo's gastroenterology department treats ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease with a multidisciplinary, integrated care pathway. It offers all available biotechnological therapies and, where appropriate, access to phase 2 and 3 clinical trials. Patients who relapse can get an urgent outpatient review, and inpatient care when needed.
Negrar di Valpolicella (Verona)
IRCCS Ospedale Sacro Cuore Don Calabria
The IBD Unit is the inflammatory bowel disease section of the hospital's Centro Malattie Retto-Intestinali, a simple operating unit attached to general surgery and gastroenterology. A team of gastroenterologists, endoscopists, radiologists, pathologists and surgeons treats Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, with hepatologists, rheumatologists, dermatologists and ophthalmologists for disease beyond the gut. Treatment runs from mesalazine, steroids and immunosuppressants to new-generation biologic drugs, with surgery done in close collaboration with the general surgery ward.
1 named clinician
Pisa
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana
The SOD Chirurgia malattie infiammatorie intestinali is a surgical structure at the AOU Pisana dedicated to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. It works within the hospital's inflammatory bowel disease pathway, a Tuscan reference point serving over a thousand patients through a multidisciplinary approach. The unit is based at the Cisanello site.
Rome
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
The Ambulatorio IBD (MICI) sits within CEMAD, the Gemelli digestive-diseases centre established in 2018, and is dedicated to Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Care runs on a multidisciplinary clinical care pathway involving gastroenterologists, radiologists, pathologists, surgeons, rheumatologists, dermatologists, psychologists and nutritionists. It is coordinated within CEMAD's inflammatory bowel disease team.
Rome
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico Umberto I
A named outpatient clinic for inflammatory bowel disease, which also sees short bowel syndrome, in the Clinica Medica 2 building of Policlinico Umberto I. It offers first and follow-up gastroenterology visits and runs its own infusion clinic. It is open on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Rome
Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo Forlanini
A simple operating unit dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment and research of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, in the Flajani pavilion. Dedicated staff follow patients through every diagnostic and treatment stage with a multidisciplinary approach. A research centre for clinical trials of new therapies operates inside the unit.
1 named clinician
Rozzano (Milan)
Humanitas Research Hospital (IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas)
The IBD Center treats adults with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, with a gastroenterology team and a colorectal surgery team that manage the same patients together and decide jointly whether and when to operate. Medical treatment covers mesalazine, steroids, immunosuppressants, biologic drugs and oral small molecules, with dedicated endoscopy and intestinal-ultrasound sessions for monitoring. The surgical side runs from day-case procedures for perianal disease through to ileo-anal pouch surgery, with specialist stoma nurses and a nurse case manager afterwards.
4 named clinicians
Turin
A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino (Presidio Molinette)
Within the Gastroenterologia U structure at Molinette, the inflammatory bowel disease activity is run as a third-level centre using molecular target therapies. It is led for MICI by a dedicated referent and offers joint clinics with surgeons and other specialists. The department is also a national reference for experimental clinical trials in inflammatory bowel disease.
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