Department of Pediatric Orthopedics @ Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio
The Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Unit’s main field of interests concerns the treatment of paediatric orthopaedic and traumatological diseases and developmental age diseases.
In particular, congenital deformity of the foot (flatfoot, clubfoot, pes equinus), hip (Perthes disease, DDH) and knee (Varus/valgus knee, Blount disease), cerebral palsy of the child, osteodysplasia, benign bone tumours, dysmetria of the limbs, osteochondritis, slipped capital femoral epiphysis, childhood traumas and the traumatic pathology of the knee in paediatric and developmental age patients, sport traumatology, obstetric paralysis, congenital stiff neck.
iagnosis, classification and conservative and surgical treatment of congenital and acquired deformities are offered at the Unit as well as correction of statutory defects and low disharmonic stature.
Conditions we take care of at this Department
Notable advanced technological equipment
- Circular and hexapod external fixation
- EOS X-ray technology
Meet our team
Head physician
Fabio Verdoni
Featured physicians
The new hospital brings together in a single facility Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, the first hospital for orthopaedic admissions that performs 75% of all revision orthopaedic surgeries in Italy, and Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio, example of healthcare excellence for its cardiovascular unit as well as for the diagnosis and treatment of obesity.
The new Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant’Ambrogio (OGSA), accredited by the Italian National Healthcare System (SSN), and given an IRCCS status (Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare) by the Italian Ministry of Health for the study of the locomotor system disorders, it is a center of excellence for clinical and pre-clinical biomedical research, and it is well-known for its teaching activity as a learning site for the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in agreement with the University of Milan.
As former Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, it is known for its achievements in the field of sports medicine and is now home for RE.GA.IN, a regenerative medicine center for the treatment of cartilage and tendon pathologies.
Since 2007, the Institute has become a member of the ISOC (International Society of Orthopaedic Centers), recognized as one of the 19 institutes of excellence in the field of orthopaedics representing 16 countries.
Former Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio adds to the new OGSA its healthcare excellence in treatment of cardiovascular pathologies with over 500 interventions of cardiac surgery and 2,500 interventional cardiology procedures per year thus becoming among the first Italian centers for cardiovascular treatments. The Cardiothoracic Center represents a point of excellence in mini-invasive cardiac surgery and in the percutaneous aortic valve replacement. Additionally, former Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio is in the first place among the Lombardy hospitals for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction.
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