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IRCSS Polyclinic Hospital San Martino – University of Genova
City, Country: Genova, Italy.
Website: www.ospedalesanmartino.it/
Healthcare Provider Representative: Prof. Maurizio Cutolo
Roles in the ERN: Deputy Coordinating Centre, Steering Committee member, HCP full member, Education and Training Working Group co-Chair – Prof. Maurizio Cutolo, Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) Disease Group Coordination – Prof. Alberto Sulli.
Areas of expertise in the ERN: Idiopathic inflammatory Myopathies (IIM), Relapsing polychondritis (RP), Systemic Sclerosis (SSc).
Contact: mcutolo at unige.it
Prof. Maurizio Cutolo
The ERN ReCONNET Education and Training Working Group (WG) is glad to release its new flyer on nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC), a new and informative document targeting patients and lay audience aimed at explaining such an important diagnostic approach.
The document was developed by the Network under the leadership of Prof. Maurizio Cutolo from IRCSS – Ospedale San Martino (co-chair of the ERN ReCONNET Education and Training WG) – Genova (Italy), Prof. Vanessa Smith from University Hospital Ghent (co-chair of the ERN ReCONNET Systemic Sclerosis Disease Group and EULAR Study Group on microcirculation in rheumatic diseases) – Ghent (Belgium), Prof. Francesca Ingegnoli from Gaetano Pini CTO (co-chair CAP-SIR SG) – Milan (Italy), therefore, it was done in collaboration with EULAR Study Group on Capillaroscopy and Microcirculation and the CAP-SIR Study Group.
Regarding the NVC approach, the test is mainly useful in rheumatology and in internal medicine, for an early or to-be-confirmed diagnosis of rare and complex connective tissue diseases such as Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD), Polydermatomyositis, Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease (UCTD), AntiPhospholipid Syndrome (APS), and offers important information on microcirculation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLA) as well as in Sjögren’s Syndrome (SS) and overlaps.
The flyer can be downloaded for free (pdf), and it will available soon in several languages.
ERN ReCONNET Capillaroscopy Flyer (pdf)
More details and info about NVC can be found here.
Prof. Alberto Sulli
Webinar Season 2024 – 2025
ERN ReCONNET is glad to announce that its new Webinar Season will start on Sept. 11th under the leadership of Prof. Maurizio Cutolo and his Genoa Team (Italy), for the second consecutive year, as part of the Education and Training WG.
The events planned for this new exiting season are extremely interesting, topics are disease related as well as transversal targeting patients and caregivers, HCPs, or both. The invited speakers are top experts in their field and they kindly share with us their knowledge and expertise. The webinars are organized in collaboration with our ePAGs representatives that actively contribute as organizers, speakers, and moderators.
Registrations to ALL our webinars are FREE and OPEN, click here for more info, details, and links.
Recorded episodes are FREELY available on our ERN ReCONNET YouTube Channel.
