Alessandro Bertani, MD

Resident, General Surgery Unit
Liver Transplantation Center
Department of Clinical and Experimental Surgery
Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo

Largo Barozzi, 1
24127 Bergamo, Italy
Phone: (035) 269.390
Fax: (035) 266.898
e-mail: abertani@galactica.it

Education and Training:
Dr. Bertani is Resident at the General Surgery Unit, Liver Transplantation Center, of the Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo.
Dr. Bertani took his medical degree at the University of Pavia, in Pavia, Italy where he graduated with a final paper on  “The experimental use of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I: hemodinamic, functional and histologic effects of the acute in vivo administration after kidney autotransplantation” and attended to experimental protocols on kidney and pancreas transplantation and on the induction of transplant tolerance. 
He holds medical license in Italy and in the countries of the European Community.
At the moment he is serving third year of residency at the General Surgery School of the University of Pavia.  
Clinical and Cognitive Interests:
Dr. Bertani is interested in general, thoracic and laparoscopic surgery, and clinical problems in liver transplantation.
Selected Publications:
Segalin A, Colledan M, Lucianetti A, Spada M, Bertani A et al.: La chirurgia del carcinoma del retto. Tumori, Suppl to Vol.86, No 3:S15-S19,2000

In press:
Spada M, Bertani A, Sonzogni A et al.: A cause of late graft dysfunction after liver transplantation in children: de-novo autoimmune hepatitis. Transplamntation proceedings.
Petz W, Spada M, Sonzogni A, Colledan M, Segalin A, Lucianetti A, Bertani A et al. Pediatric Split liver transplantation using elderly donors. Transplantation proceedings.
Spada M, Guizzetti, Petz W, Colledan M, Segalin A, Lucianetti A, Bertani A et al.. Circulating EBV-DNA in the monitoring of EBV infections in pediatric liver transplant recipients. Transplantation proceedings.