Head of Service
Dr Paola Melotti
Staff
Secretary: Giorgia Veronesi
Geneticists: Paola Melotti, Francesca Pauro
Times and Contact Details
Mon-Fri 10:00-12:00
045 812 3419
consulenzagenetica.fcvr@aovr.veneto.it
Certified mail (required when sending documents):
geneticafc.aovr@pecveneto.it
Genetic Counselling
The Center offers a Genetic Counselling Service to the following people:
- Family members of cystic fibrosis patients or carriers
- Couples where both partners are carriers of a cystic fibrosis gene mutation
- Prenatal diagnosis by villocentesis (information available for pre-implantation diagnosis)
- Parents with ultrasonographic evidence of hyperechogenic foetal bowel
- Assisted reproduction couples with obstructive azoospermia / bilateral congenital atresia of the vas deferens in the male partner
- Patients with chronic/relapsing pancreatitis, with CFTR gene variant(s): further investigation for genes involved in pancreatitis
- Suspected cystic fibrosis or CFTR-related disorder
For all cases not included in the above categories, genetic testing for cystic fibrosis can be carried out at the blood collection center of the city’s other hospital Borgo Roma.
Appointment request forms: