Pier Alberto Testoni

Profession:
Gastroenterologist
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Biography

Professor Pier Alberto Testoni is the Ordinary Professor of Gastroenterology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, where he teaches multidisciplinary courses in Digestive Tract Diseases and Digestive System (training course in English). He also collaborates with the Casa di Cura La Madonnina Clinic.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milan, where he specialized in gastroenterology and specialized in digestive surgery and endoscopy of the digestive system. He has gained extensive experience by studying abroad. He is a visiting fellow at the University of Erlangen, as well as a visiting fellow at the University of Leuven and at the Hospital Val d'Hebron in Barcelona. In 2002, he was the Visiting Professor at Duke University in Durham (USA).

During his career, Professor Testoni has been involved in the development of surgical endoscopy of the biliary tract and pancreas (he has performed over 10000 endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography or ERCP procedures), new technologies in endoluminal surgery of the digestive tract (in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux, Barrett's oesophagus and oesophageal and gastric motility disorders, as well as for the removal of precancerous lesions and early forms of cancer) and advanced endoscopic imaging techniques, particularly of the pancreas.

He is the author of 26 books and book chapters and of 252 publications (H-Index Scopus 35, citations 5,871)) in leading international trade journals.

He has recently coordinated the drafting of the European Society of Digestive Endoscopy (ESGE) guidelines on ERCP technique, and is currently coordinator of the ESGE biliopancreatic endoscopy study group and the member of the World Endoscopy Organization (WEO) board of directors for biliopancreatic endoscopy.

He was the member of the ESGE guideline working group aimed at preventing pancreatitis after ERCP.

He is the member of the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SIED) and its former chairman, the Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE), the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE). He is also a Fellow of the American Association for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).

He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Pancreas and the member of the editorial board of the journals Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Endoscopy and Digestive and Liver Disease.

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Education

University of Milan

Degree in Medicine and Surgery - 1975

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Publications

Latest publications

Transoral incisionless fundoplication with EsophyX for gastroesophageal reflux disease: clinical efficacy is maintained up to 10 years.
Endosc Int Open. 2019 May;7(5):E647-E654. Epub 2019
Testoni PA, Testoni S, Distefano G, Mazzoleni G, Fanti L, Passaretti S.
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Prospective evaluation of ERCP performance in an Italian regional database study.
2019 Digestive and Liver Disease in press
Mariani, A., Segato, S., Anderloni, A., (...), Manes, G., Testoni, P.A.
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Common variants in the CLDN2-MORC4 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci confer susceptibility to acute pancreatitis.
2018 Pancreatology 18(5), pp. 477-481
Weiss, F.U., Hesselbarth, N., Párniczky, A., (...), Scholz, M., Rosendahl, J.
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Aspiration therapy as a tool to treat obesity: 1-to 4-year results in a 201-patient multi-center post-market European registry study
Obesity Surgery 28(7), pp. 1860-1868 2018
Nyström, M., Machytka, E., Norén, E., (...), Perez, J.C.E., Arau, R.T
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Genome-wide association study identifies inversion in the CTRB1-CTRB2 locus to modify risk for alcoholic and non-alcoholic chronic pancreatitis.
2018 Gut 67(10), pp. 1855-1863
Rosendahl, J., Kirsten, H., Hegyi, E., (...), Scholz, M., Sahin-Tóth, M.
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Papillary cannulation and sphincterotomy techniques at ERCP: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Clinical Guideline.
2016 Endoscopy 48(7), pp. 657-683
Testoni, P.A., Mariani, A., Aabakken, L., (...), Van Hooft, J., Williams, E.J.
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Early precut sphincterotomy for difficult biliary access to reduce post-ERCP pancreatitis: A randomized trial.
2016 Endoscopy 48(6), pp. 530-535
Mariani, A., Di Leo, M., Giardullo, N., (...), Pantaleo, G., Testoni, P.A.
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Long-term efficacy of transoral incisionless fundoplication with Esophyx (Tif 2.0) and factors affecting outcomes in GERD patients followed for up to 6 years: a prospective single-center study.
2015 Surgical Endoscopy 29(9), pp. 2770-2780
Testoni, P.A., Testoni, S., Mazzoleni, G., Vailati, C., Passaretti, S.
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Polymorphisms at PRSS1-PRSS2 and CLDN2-MORC4 loci associate with alcoholic and non-alcoholic chronic pancreatitis in a European replication study.
2015 Gut 64(9), pp. 1426-1433
Derikx, M.H., Kovacs, P., Scholz, M., (...), Werner, J., Wodarz, N P.
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Still a pharmaceutical defense weapon against post-ERCP pancreatitis? A 30-year story.
Somatostatin: 2015 .Endoscopy 47(5), pp. 393-395
Testoni, P.A.
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