(ANSA) – ANCONA, 30 AUG – The Marche University Hospital Authority has obtained another important recognition. The Molecular Genetics Laboratory affiliated with the Legal Medicine Sod, directed by Raffaele Giorgetti, has in fact obtained the prestigious international EMQN (European Molecular Genetics Quality Network) certification which attests to the accuracy of the analyses and interpretation of the results in the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using highly advanced techniques called “Next Generation Sequencing” and classical sequencing with the Sanger method. An external control that adds to those already successfully carried out for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and for the forensic polymorphisms needed to feed the criminal DNA database.
“These pathologies – explains Giorgetti – are currently the main cause of death in Italy and are responsible for 35.8% of all deaths. The provision of genetic tests is now essential in the care pathway for patients and Forensic Medicine, thanks also to the long experience gained in sudden cardiac deaths, offers cardiologists and medical geneticists of our hospital a valuable service that is increasingly recommended at an international level”. This sector of activity is coordinated by Valerio Onofri and makes use of the collaboration of professors, doctors, biologists and laboratory technicians.
“This result – underlines Giorgetti – enriches the activities of excellence already carried out by Forensic Medicine. In fact, the structure plays a fundamental role in detecting new drugs that appear on the black market as a technical body of the Snap (National Early Warning System – Department of Anti-Drug Policies). It also offers assistance to the Forensic Medical Litigation of the Hospital Trust in the context of Risk Management”.
“Forensic Medicine, thanks to the recent installation of a cutting-edge morgue, is also involved – explains Giorgetti – in the project for the use of cadavers for research purposes for scientific and educational purposes (Cadaver Lab). This will allow professionals, and in particular surgeons of various specializations, to be able to carry out practical professional training activities directly on the cadavers”. (ANSA).
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