Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) sessions were resumed at the Santissima Trinità di Sora hospital.
An important service that is also carried out at the Asl of Frosinone, which breaks down the passive mobility created in recent times and offers residents of the province the opportunity to treat themselves close to home.
A precise will of the new Strategic Management that since its establishment has worked to bring this examination back to the Sorana hospital facility and make it a provincial reference point.
A weekly session is planned, at least initially, on Tuesday mornings.
This morning the first intervention on a 68-year-old patient with biliary calculus; the procedure, performed by Dr. Massimo Pompa accompanied by Dr. Gianpaolo Tomaselli, nurse Enzo Polsinelli and anesthesiologist Dr. Roberta Regolo was perfectly successful.
ERCP is a specialized, diagnostic and operational, “mixed” technique that uses both digestive endoscopy and radiology in combination and is used for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas. It is a complex procedure, which allows in addition to the diagnosis of the aforementioned diseases, to perform the removal of stones present in the bile ducts, the treatment of benign diseases and precancerous lesions of the papilla of Vater and palliative therapy of cancers of the bile ducts and pancreas.
It generally lasts 30-60 minutes, is carried out in hospital, and involves the use of general anaesthesia (in selected cases only deep sedation), which is why the endoscopist, who acts as an operator, is also accompanied by the anaesthetist.
