Rozzano (Milan) · Italy

Humanitas Research Hospital (IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas)

IBD Center — Centro Medico Chirurgico per le Malattie Infiammatorie Croniche dell’Intestino

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.

What this unit is strong at

  • Gastroenterology and colorectal surgery decide surgical timing and peri-operative drug management jointly
  • Ileo-anal pouch surgery performed at the centre
  • Day-case pathway for perianal Crohn’s disease
  • Bowel-sparing surgical techniques — stricturoplasty, Kono-S anastomosis
  • Dedicated endoscopy and intestinal-ultrasound sessions for IBD patients
  • Specialist stoma nurses and a named nurse case manager after surgery
  • Joint route to rheumatology and dermatology for disease outside the gut
  • Open clinical trials, including stem-cell therapy for perianal fistulas

Services

  • Adult IBD
  • IBD surgery
  • Pouch surgery
  • Biologics service
  • Clinical trials
  • Stoma care
  • Perianal Crohn’s
  • Complex IBD referral

The team

  • Prof. Alessandro Armuzzi

    Responsabile di Unità Operativa — IBD Center (unit director)

    Malattie infiammatorie croniche intestinali; internal medicine

  • Prof. Antonino Spinelli

    Responsabile di Unità Operativa — Chirurgia del Colon e del Retto

    Minimally invasive and sphincter-preserving colorectal surgery for IBD

  • Dott.ssa Cristina Bezzio

    Aiuto — IBD

    IBD; intestinal ultrasound and endoscopy

  • Dott. Michele Maria Carvello

    Aiuto, Ricercatore universitario in chirurgia generale — Chirurgia del Colon e del Retto

    Colorectal surgery for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis

Where this came from

Everything on this page was read on the centre’s own published pages. Nothing here is inferred, and nothing is filled in where we could not find it.

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