Laboratory Medicine Department

“The aim of the department is to offer a complete service of laboratory diagnostic tests in order to guarantee an effective support for clinical activity and the maximum safety avoiding mistakes”

Strengths:

• Completeness (general and specialist clinical chemistry, hematology, coagulation, protein analysis, toxicology and therapeutic monitoring of drugs, hormone studies, allergology, medical genetics)
• Continuous and prompt service
• Unambiguous identification of biological samples and traceability procedures from sampling to filing
• Research activity on automation and analysis
• Blood samples for children younger than three in collaboration with the pediatric unit

Reference areas:

• diagnosis of tubercolosis disease
• primary congenital glaucoma
• screening cystic fibrosis mutations
• genetic deafness

CLINICAL AREAS

• IMMUNOHEMATOLOGY AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE
• CHEMICAL CLINICAL ANALYSIS AND MICROBIOLOGY
• MEDICAL GENETICS
• CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
• CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
• ANATOMY HISTOLOGY PATHOLOGY AND CYTOGENETICS
• MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY