Other Specialties
The Clinic offers a wide range of traditional
medical-surgical specialties.
Plastic Surgery is particulary important, drawing on the collaboration of
the best Italian and foreign specialists in the field.
Orthopaedic Surgery and Infant Orthopaedic Surgery for disabled
people is also highly developed. This unit takes care of all particular
pathologies, both traumatic and non traumatic, and has a well equipped section
for the treatment of prothesis surgery.
The possibility of early diagnosis, associated with surgical treatment and
rehabilitating treatment as appropriate, has opened new perspectives in the
treatment of cerebropaties and myopathies.
Specialists work in the two emerging fields of hip prothesis and foot surgery.
The Clinic has a highly specialised unit that can offer a surgical treatment
associated with facilities for rehabilitation as required.
Oculistic Surgery has a team of excellent specialists and is equipped
with highly technological modern instruments for the treatment of cataract,
myopia, presbyopia, glaucoma and all other pathologies of the retina.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology operate a "Womens' Programme",
staffed by specialists and university professors. The programme offers
prevention and personalised treatment for different ages, and provides for the
control of fertility, infertility and sterility of the couple. Sexuality,
psychosomatic gynaecology, and physiopathology of the reproductive system as a
whole are also covered. Within this there is also a programme of qualified
service in marriage guidance, eugenics, hereditary diseases, pre-conceptional
and pre-natal medicine, biochemical and electronic monitoring of pregnancy.
The specialised "Contemporary Global Screening" service is designed
for the prevention and early diagnosis of female genital and breast tumours,
with the direct collaboration of the mammographist. Complex and integrated
treatments of malignant tumours are also practised.
Modern gynaecological endocrinology and prevention and treatment of menopause,
post-menopause, and geriatric gynaecology are dealt with by expert
specialists.
Neurology and Neuropsychiatry deal with the nervous system
diseases, both in adult and older people. Particular interest is given to
mobility disorders like Parkinson's Disease and to memory and attention
pathologies, such as brain ageing and Alzheimer's Disease. Increasingly,
importance is also given to the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of
cerebral-vascular diseases of Multiple Sclerosis and Depression, so largely
widespread today.