Neurosurgery

THENeurosurgery Operating Unit represents a point of reference for the treatment of the main pathologies of surgical interest. In particular, the facility specializes in spinal surgery and in the treatment of peripheral nervous system diseases, offering treatment pathways tailored to patient needs and advanced technologies.

The Operational Unit has 10 ordinary hospital beds with 24-hour television monitoring and a service of semi-intensive post-operative therapy.

Surgical activity is carried out in a dedicated operating room equipped with high-level devices such as the Zeiss Pentero 900 microscope and the Siemens Cios Alpha 3D image intensifier.

Patients can also benefit from the diagnostic support of the most modern equipment available at the IGEA Nursing Home, including:

• Siemens Somatom Force CT
• Magnetic Resonance Siemens Magnetom Vida 3,0 T
• PET/CT Biograph mCT40

Pathologies treated

Clinical activity is focused on the surgical treatment of vertebral-spinal pathologiesIn particular, the following are treated:

• Neoplastic pathologies: extradural and intradural tumors
• Degenerative diseases: herniated discs, spondyloarthritic myelopathies, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis
• Malformative pathologies: lytic listhesis, syringomyelia, alterations of the atlanto-occipital hinge
• Inflammatory pathologies: spondylodiscitis, spinal lesions from rheumatoid arthritis

All the main operations are also carried out percutaneous procedures on the spinal axis.

Team

The neurosurgery medical team is led by Dr. Orazio Arena, former Director of the Simple Structure of Cranio-Spinal Neurotraumatology at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan and of the Complex Operating Unit of Neurosurgery at the Manzoni Hospital in Lecco.

It includes the Medical Directors:
Dr. Giuseppe Bonaldi, former Director of the Neuroradiology Unit at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo
Dr. Luigi Giannachi
Dr. Alessandra Isidori
Dr. Carlo Antonio Todaro