Internal Medicine

Areas of activity

This specialization has a “global vision of the patient” as its objective. It deepens the study of disorders of many different organs of a person  (heart, lung, kidney, liver, blood vessels, etc.).

A distinctive characteristic of Internal Medicine is to make the medic an expert in assessing correctly one or more symptoms found in the patient and having the right competences in the request of exams and the prescription of an appropriate therapy.

Another characteristic of internal medicine is the diagnosis and cure of patients with diseases affecting several organs and patients with more than one disease at the same time (an increasingly frequent event in senior patients).

Form an operative perspective, the ward offers the possibility to carry out timely planned admissions (after outpatient evaluation) in case of complex polypathologies with necessity of thorough and invasive investigation.

In collaboration with Emergency Room, the ward can offer swift assistance for serious acute diseases needing complex therapies.

In this ward are available specialized doctors in Internal Medicine, Pneumology, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology with consultants in Haematology, Infectious Diseases and Nephrology. This permits to face “difficult” cases in a multidisciplinary context with eventual collective discussions for setting up the best diagnostic-therapeutic path for the patient’s necessities.