The Hematology Service

The Hematology Service of the Favaloro Foundation offers diagnosis and treatment of blood diseases, such as alterations in red blood cells (anemias, polyglobulia), white blood cells and platelets, as well as blood clotting problems (hemorrhages or thrombosis).

The Service is also a national and international reference center for the study and treatment of antiphospholipid syndrome and thrombophilias in general. These studies are especially important in patients with a history of arterial or venous thrombosis and in women who have had repeated pregnancy losses.

In the hospitalization area, he cares for patients with anemia, white blood cell disorders, or coagulation abnormalities who will undergo surgical treatments or organ transplantation. It also initiates anticoagulant therapy in hospitalized patients with thrombosis, arrhythmias or replacement of heart valves. The follow-up of patients is carried out through the Anticoagulation Clinic for anticoagulated  patients, which has a medical and paramedical team highly specialized in bleeding and thrombosis disorders. In recent years the area of ​​oncohematology was incorporated for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic oncohematological pathology

Patients have a telephone call service from 4 pm.

HEPATOLOGY
(ADULT AND PEDIATRIC)

The Hepatology service provides comprehensive multidisciplinary care for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic diseases that affect the liver and bile ducts in adult and pediatric patients.

The symptoms of liver diseases usually have similar clinical expressions, however their causes can be very diverse. Therefore, it is important to have a proper diagnosis in the initial evaluation of patients, to choose the appropriate treatment in each particular case, avoiding in this way the progression of liver disease.

The Adult Hepatology area  offers individualized care for patients with acute and chronic diseases of the liver and bile duct. Together, the Favaloro Foundation University Hospital has the technological equipment for the proper diagnosis (specific laboratory tests, percutaneous liver biopsy or transjugular, TIPS placement, imaging studies, liver Doppler ultrasound, liver tomography and MRI).

The area of ​​Infant Hepatology  is specially developed and focused on treating patients with all types of liver disease, from the peri-neonatological diagnosis to the age at which they must transition to the adult program.

The approach to liver disease is carried out in close contact with other specialties such as child nutrition, child gastroenterology, in order to provide comprehensive care to the pediatric patient covering different aspects of liver disease, ranging from frequent to infrequent pathologies that can occur from the neonatal period up to adolescence. Likewise, evaluation and follow-up of acute or chronic end-stage liver disease are offered in relation to the Liver Transplantation Program [link to liver transplantation].

Professionals in the area remain in continuous training to provide excellent care, constantly incorporating high-level diagnostic and therapeutic technology.

 WHAT TYPE OF CONDITIONS ARE TREATED IN THE HEPATOLOGY SERVICE?

• Prevention and Treatment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver

• Prevention and Treatment of Alcoholic Liver Disease

• Treatment of Hepatocarcinoma or Primary Cancer of the Liver

• Acute hepatitis (viral, toxic, drug, autoimmune)

• Chronic hepatitis (hepatitis C and hepatitis B, autoimmune)

• Cholestatic diseases (primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, bile duct obstruction, bile duct atresia) 

• Metabolic and inherited diseases (hemochromatosis, Wilson's disease) 

 INFANT HEPATOLOGY

This area is specially developed and focused on treating patients with all types of liver disease, from the peri-neonatological diagnosis to the age at which they must transition to the adult program.

The approach to liver disease is carried out in close contact with other specialties such as child nutrition, child gastroenterology, in order to provide comprehensive care to the pediatric patient covering different aspects of liver disease, ranging from frequent to infrequent pathologies that can occur from the neonatal period up to adolescence. Likewise, evaluation and follow-up of acute or chronic terminal liver disease are offered in relation to the Liver Transplant Program .

Professionals in the area remain in continuous training to provide excellent care, constantly incorporating high-level diagnostic and therapeutic technology.

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