ISMETT
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ISMETT, in Italian, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione translated as the Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies, is a center for organ transplantation located in Palermo, Italy. ISMETT was founded in 1997 as a partnership between the Region of Sicily, the Civico and Cervello hospitals in Palermo, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Healthcare
- Founded
- 1997
- Location
- Palermo, Italy
- Also known as
- ISMETT
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.419663.f · ISNI 0000 0001 2110 1693
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hospital
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Palermo
- Headquarters
- Palermo
- Official website
- www.ismett.edu
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- inception
- 1988-03-28
- number of hospital beds
- 70
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Transplant activities
- Transplantation of HIV+ patients
- The Cell Factory
- The Center for Simulation
- Directors
- See also
- References
- External links
ISMETT, in Italian, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione translated as the Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies, is a center for organ transplantation located in Palermo, Italy. ISMETT was founded in 1997 as a partnership between the Region of Sicily, the Civico and Cervello hospitals in Palermo, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
ISMETT primarily specializes in performing all types of organ transplantations, using both deceased and living donor techniques. ISMETT has 70 beds (14 ICU, 21 in semi-intensive, and 35 inpatient), 7 outpatient beds, 4 operating rooms, a hospital pharmacy and laboratory analysis, infectious diseases and pathology in a facility that covers an area of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ISMETT” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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