Majadahonda (Madrid) · Spain
Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda
Unidad de Enfermedad Inflamatoria Intestinal
A unit for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis that says it cares for 1,985 patients and runs more than 4,000 consultations a year. It brings together five gastroenterologists, five colorectal surgeons, a rheumatologist, two dermatologists, a radiologist, hospital pharmacologists, two specialised nurses, a research coordinator and a psychologist, and it holds a weekly multidisciplinary meeting on complex cases. The unit's gastroenterologists do their own patients' endoscopies. Its nurses teach self-administered treatments, adjust some treatments and keep patients in touch with the unit by phone and email.
What this unit is strong at
- Weekly multidisciplinary meeting on complex cases, with minutes taken
- The unit's gastroenterologists do their own patients' endoscopies
- More than 1,000 patients on biologic treatment at present, and 250 IBD operations in the last five years
- IBD nurses on a telephone line weekdays 8:30–10:30 and a unit email for flares, medication doubts and questions
- A dedicated psychologist and a research coordinator within the unit
Services
The team
María Isabel Vera Mendoza
Médico adjunto, Servicio de Gastroenterología y Hepatología — Unidad EII
Marta Calvo Moya
Médico adjunto — Unidad EII
Virginia Matallana Royo
Médico adjunto — Unidad EII
Irene González Partida
Médico adjunto — Unidad EII
Belén Botella Mateu
Médico adjunto — Unidad EII
Arsenio Sánchez Movilla
Jefe de Sección, Cirugía General y Digestiva — Unidad EII
colorectal surgery
Pablo Bella Castillo
Enfermero — Unidad EII
Macarena González
Enfermería — Unidad EII
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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