Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli - Roma
Italy
Contact Information for physicians and patients
Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Department
Rare Liver Disease Clinic
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli
Largo Gemelli 8, 00168, Roma, Italia
Email: centro.malattierare.gastroepato(at)policlinicogemelli.it
Telephone: 0630153717
Centre Information
The Rare Liver Disease Unit is part of the Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Department of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS in Rome. The unit is a reference center for about 20 rare liver diseases, including Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, Primary biliary cholangitis, Autoimmune Hepatitis, Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis, Wilson disease, Policystic Liver Disease, biliary atresia, Vascular Liver Diseases, Caroli disease. Hepatologists of our team received a specific training for the management of these rare disorders, and are continuously receiving medical update in the field of rare liver diseases.
The clinical activities range from diagnosis to clinical care and treatment of rare liver disorders according to the most recent international standards of care, with inpatient and outpatient dedicated facilities. One of the strenghts of our center is being able to place the patient at the center of a multidisciplinary team, with the aim of establishing a specific therapeutic path individualized for each patient, and responding to the needs of each individual.
Our team is also involved in clinical research, and has been actively involved in developing and updating national guidelines fort he management of rare liver diseases. Our center has recently been ranked as first in Europe and 8th in the world in the gastroenterology field in the “World’s best specialized hospital 2025” ranking by Newsweek.
We also have a transplant program in our hospital, and there is a strict collaboration with the transplant hepatologists of our centre as regarding the management of patients with advanced liver disease, with an early referral for liver transplantaiton when it’s clinically needed.
Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute della Donna, del Bambino e di Sanità Pubblica
Key Contacts
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Valentina Giorgio
Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute della Donna, del Bambino e di Sanità Pubblica, Rome, Italy
Information for Physicians and Patients
Rare Disease Unit
Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute della Donna, del Bambino e di Sanità Pubblica
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italia
Email: centro.malattierare@policlinicogemelli.it
phone: 0039 063383211
Team & Coordination
- Valentina Giorgio (Paediatric Hepatologist) valentina.giorgio@policlinicogemelli.it
Particular rare liver disease expertise
- Sclerosing cholangitis (Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis – PSC, IgG4-related Sclerosing Cholangitis – IRC)
- Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH)
- Genetic cholestatic diseases
- Wilson disease
Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Department
Key Contacts
Information for Physicians and Patients
Team & Coordination
- Francesca Fianchi (Adult Hepatologist) Francesca.fianchi@guest.policlinicogemelli.it
- Irene Spinelli (Adult Hepatologist) irene.spinelli@guest.policlinicogemelli.it
- Francesca Romana Ponziani (Adult Hepatologist) francescaromana.ponziani@policlinicogemelli.it
- Francesco Santopaolo (Adult Hepatologist) francesco.santopaolo@policlinicogemelli.it
- Antonio Grieco (Adult Hepatologist) antonio.grieco@policlinicogemelli.it
- Antonio Gasbarrini (Adult Hepatologist) antonio.gasbarrini@unicatt.it
Particular rare liver disease expertise
- Sclerosing cholangitis (Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis – PSC, IgG4-related Sclerosing Cholangitis – IRC, Secondary Sclerosing Cholangitis)
- Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC)
- Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH)
- Primary biliary cholangitis/primary sclerosing cholangitis and autoimmune hepatitis overlap syndrome
- Genetic cholestatic diseases
- Low phospholipid associated cholelithiasis (LPAC) syndrome
- Wilson disease
- Policystic Liver Disease (PLD)
- Congenital fibrosis
- Vascular Liver Diseases (Budd-Chiari syndrome, congenital portosystemic shunts, early-onset familial non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, nodular regenerative hyperplasia of the liver, porto-sinusoidal vascular liver disease – PSVD, sinusoidal obstruction syndrome/hepatic veno-occlusive disease)
- Caroli disease
- Alpha-1-Antitrypsin-Deficiency (AATD)
Participation in ERN RARE-LIVER Working Groups
- Wilson disease WG
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis WG
- Primary biliary cholangitis WG
- Policystic Liver Disease WG