GASTROENTEROLOGY
The medical team of the Gastroenterology Service of the Favaloro Foundation is made up of professionals with recognized experience in the specialty and with knowledge in different subspecialties within Gastroenterology.
Together with other specialties of the Foundation (General Surgery, Gastroesophageal Surgery, Institute of Multiorgan Transplantation, Clinical Oncology), the professionals of the area make up multidisciplinary teams dedicated to the study and treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases . This allows the care of both patients with simple pathologies and those with complex pathologies that are difficult to resolve, in which cases the service is a referral reference.
Advances in innovative diagnostic and therapeutic techniques are constantly being incorporated worldwide.
Care is provided for conditions such as gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux, gastric ulcer, helicobacter pylori, chronic constipation, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, irritable bowel, polyps, and cancer of the digestive system, among others. Likewise, the service places emphasis on disease prevention, mainly through education on the pathologies with which the specialty is related. It has a special office for the prevention of colon cancer .
EQUIPMENT
The sector is equipped with the latest technology:
High resolution endoscopic towers, equipped with image magnification and digital chromoendoscopy (FICE) for the detection and study of millimeter lesions.
Argon Plasma laser, intended for a large number of complex resolution pathologies.
Double balloon videoenteroscope, which allows access to the entire digestive system, especially the small intestine, which is a segment of the digestive tract that is very difficult to access for the study and treatment of diseases.
Laboratory equipped with the latest generation equipment (high resolution manometer and impedance meter) for the study of digestive motility, by specialists in Neurogastroenterology.
The service has an ultra-thin neonatal endoscope, with an external diameter that allows endoscopic studies to be carried out in patients under 1 year of age.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
The Nuclear Medicine service of the Favaloro Foundation provides diagnosis for diseases that affect not only the heart but also the rest of the organs. Since its opening in 1992, it has accumulated significant experience. At present, it conducts around 4,000 studies per year of which 80% are cardiological evaluations.
It provides care in two of its locations: in the Central Building and in the Pilar Prevention Center.
STAFF OF SPECIALISTS
The professional staff is made up of nuclear physicians and specialists in Nuclear Cardiology. In addition to their high academic level, they are authorized by the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, a body dependent on the Presidency of the Nation.
EQUIPMENT
The Nuclear Medicine Service has SPECT gamma camera equipment that allows the acquisition and later processing of three-dimensional images of the organs.
For cardiological studies, we can acquire the images triggered by the electrocardiogram (Gated SPECT) with which we can evaluate wall motility and left ventricular function.
Software is available to perform fusion images and obtain a three-dimensional image of the myocardial perfusion from Nuclear Medicine and the coronary arteries of the patient, which are acquired with the Multislice Tomograph. In this way we can analyze in a single image and in an integrated way, coronary disease both anatomically and functionally.
For pulmonary ventilation studies we have a team that administers the radiotracer at positive pressure, which allows obtaining better quality images with lower radiation doses for the patient compared to traditional nebulization ventilation.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Nuclear Medicine is extremely useful in research because of the possibility it offers to obtain not only anatomical but also functional information. That is why the service is linked in this sense to almost all sectors of the institution.
In the context of the University Hospital, Nuclear Medicine provides training for both physicians and technicians. The fellowship program for Nuclear Cardiology is aimed at clinical cardiologists who wish to start in the methodology with a duration of two years and meets the requirements that the Argentine Association of Nuclear Cardiology demands. Technicians from other institutions may rotate through the service.
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