Daniele Alberti

Consultant Pediatric Surgeon, 
Pediatric Surgery Unit, Liver Transplantation Center
Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery
Ospedali Riuniti  di Bergamo

Largo Barozzi, 1
24127 Bergamo Italy
Phone: (035) 269-544  269-796
Fax: (035 266897
E-mail: danielealberti@yahoo.com

Education and Training
Dr. Alberti is a Consultant Pediatric Surgeon at the Pediatric Surgery Unit, and at Liver Transplant Center, Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, of the Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo. Dr Alberti earned his medical degree and PhD and served his residency in pediatric surgery at the University of Brescia, in Brescia, Italy.
He served a research and clinical fellowship in the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Liver Transplant Unit in the Cliniques Universitaire S. Luc, Catholic University of Bruxelles, School of Medicine, in Bruxelles (Belgium).
Dr. Alberti holds medical license in Italy and in the countries of the European Community and since 1997 he is a member of the European Board of Pediatric Surgeons.
He has performed more than 2500 surgical procedures in all the field of pediatric surgery (except neurosurgery and cardiac surgery) and holds a large experience in hepatobiliary surgery and in the surgery of portal hypertension. He took part to more than 150 pediatric liver transplantations.

Clinical and Cognitive Interests
Dr. Alberti is member of numerous professional and scientific societies including the European Society of Organ Transplantation, the European Society of Liver Transplantation, the Italian Society of Organ Transpantation, the Italian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
In the field of pediatric surgery dr. Alberti devoted his interest in hepatobiliary diseases, mostly in biliary atresia , portal hypertension and liver tumors.
Concerning biliary atresia (BA), during the time spent in Brescia, he supported the care of more than 300 BA patients who represent one of the most largest series in the world. This gave him the opportunity for further development of clinical skill, research and scientific pubblications on pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
Concerning portal hypertension he was the first person interested in importing and developing in Italy new not-transplant techniques, such as the mesenterico-Rex by-pass for the children with portal cavernoma, which represents a new intervention that can completely restore the hepatic physiology.
Concerning the Pediatric Liver Transplantation he understood  the possible and necessary role of liver transplantation in pediatric liver diseases as early as 1986. During his residency in Brussels he was involved in experimental and clinical trials on liver transplantation and innovative surgical techniques, namely the reduced size liver and the split liver procedures. In the last years he was involved in clinical research on the development of organ tolerance and weaning of immunosuppressive therapy.
He has authored or co-authored 175 publications, including refereed articles, abstracts published by refereed journals and extended abstracts.

Selected pubblications:
·	Otte JB, de Ville de Goyet J, Sokal E, ALBERTI D, et al.:   SIZE REDUCTION OF THE DONOR LIVER IS A SAFE WAY TO ALLEVIATE THE SHORTAGE OF SIZE MATCHED ORGANS IN PEDIATRIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION.   Ann Surg 211 (2):146-157, 1989

·	Otte JB, de Ville de Goyet J ALBERTI D et al.:   THE CONCEPT AND TECHNIQUE OF THE SPLIT LIVER IN CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION. Surg 107 (6): 605-612, 1990.

·	Sokal EM, Veyckemans F, de Ville de Goyet J, Moulin D, Van Hoorebeeck L, ALBERTI D et al.:   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN LESS THAN 1 YEAR OF AGE.   J Pediatr 117 (2):205-210, 1990

·	Otte JB, de Ville de Goyet J, ALBERTI D et al.:   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN: UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL (BRUXELLES) EXPERIENCE WITH THE FIRST 139 PATIENTS.   In Terasaky P (ed).  Clinical Transplants143:152, 1989. UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory, Los Angeles, 1989

·	Giustina A,  Girelli A, ALBERTI D et al.: EFFECTS OF PYRIDOSTIGMINE ON SPONTANEOUS AND GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE STIMULATED GROWTH HORMONE SECRETION IN CHILDREN ON DAYLY GLUCOCORTICOID THERAPY AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION.   Clin Endocr 35:491-498, 1991

Sokal EM, Van Hoof F, ALBERTI D et al.:  PROGRESSIVE CARDIAC FAILURE FOLLOWING ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION FOR TYPE IV GLYCOGENOSIS.   Eur J Pediatr 151: 200-203, 1992

ALBERTI D, Wallemacq P, Falchetti D et al.: MICROEMULSION FORMULATION OF CYCLOSPORINE IN PEDIATRIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION.    Transplantation. 61:512-514, 1996

De Ville de Goyet J, ALBERTI D, Clapuyt Ph et al.: DIRECT BYPASSING   OF EXTRAHEPATIC PORTAL VENOUS OBSTRUCTION IN CHILDREN: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR COMBINED HEPATIC PORTAL REVASCULARIZATION AND TREATMENT OF EXTRAHEPATIC PORTAL HYPERTENSION.  J Ped Surg  33(4): 597-601, 1998

ALBERTI D, Reding R, Otte JB et al.: Conversion from tacrolimus to microemulsion formulation of Cyclosporine A in pediatric liver transplantation.  Transpl Procced 30(5):1858, 1998.

Buzi F, Bontempelli AM, ALBERTI D et al.: GROWTH, INSULINE-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I (IGF-1), AND IGF-BINDING PROTEINS 1 AND 3 IN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE LIVER DISEASE BEFORE AND AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION: A LONGITUDINAL AND CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. Pediatric Research 43(4): 478,1998.

Grazioli L, ALBERTI D, Olivetti L et al.: CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF PORTAL VEIN WITH NODULAR REGENERATIVE HYPERPLASIA OF THE LIVER: TWO CASES.   Eur J Radiol    10(5): 820, 2000