Best Hip fracture doctors in Italy: TOP 4 doctors

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Luigi Massimo Zagra

  • 5 Excellent 14 reviews
  • 29 years of experience
  • Italy, Milan, IRCCS OSPEDALE GALEAZZI - SANT'AMBROGIO
  • Prof. Luigi Massimo Zagra is the Head of the Hip Surgery Department I at the IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi in Milan.

    He is the visiting professor at the School of Specialization in Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the University of Milan.

     

    Prof. Zagra has performed more than 5,000 major orthopaedic operations.

    Mainly focused on hip surgery including complex primary, revision (25% of cases), conservative surgery, osteotomies, and pediatric hip diseases arthroplasty.

    He performs hip replacement surgery daily for osteoarthritis, particularly in cases of congenital dysplasia, developmental and post-traumatic malformations, rheumatoid arthritis, necrosis in young and old patients, needing special implants to prevent any possible complications. 

    Dealing with problems with previously placed implants, in particular material wear and tear, such as in metal-on-metal or old-generation polyethylene prostheses, painful, loose, unstable, infected prostheses, using tissue-safe and non-invasive methods and the latest ceramic and titanium implants, including cemented ones.

     

    He is currently Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Hip Society and the Italian Hip Society, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of EFORT, of International Committee of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Arthroplasty Registry. 

    He is author and co-author of 130 articles published in national and international journals, as well as invited specialist and speaker at over 500 congresses in Italy and abroad.

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Raul Zini

  • New
  • 46 years of experience
  • Italy, Bologna, Maria Cecilia Hospital
  • Since 1977 dr Zini has performed about 15,000 operations and 1215 hip arthroscopies between 2009 and 2015. Many Italian and international professional athletes have been treated by Dr Zini over the years. Since 2011 he has held the role of president of the Italian Association of Arthroscopy, and of National Councilor of SICOOP, the Italian Society of Orthopedic Surgeons of Private Hospitals.
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Federico Della Rocca

  • New
  • 24 years of experience
  • Italy, Milan, HUMANITAS RESEARCH HOSPITAL
  • Dott. Federico Della Rocca is the Prosthetic and Minimally Invasive Hip and Knee Orthopaedics. 

    Medical areas of interest: 
    Pathology of the hip and knee, with particular interest in prosthetic and arthroscopic hip surgery. He performs about 700 surgeries every year. He has numerous participations as speaker at national and international conferences.

    Previous experience:
    He was an attending physician at Steadman Hawkins Clinic Hospital, Vail Colorado, USA. 

    He gave a great contribution to the development of the GTS (Global Tissue Sparing) hip prosthetic stem and biomechanical rotational stability tests with Prof Thomsen, Heidelberg (Germany) 12/2012.

    Research areas of interest: 
    Arthroscopic techniques on the hip

    Teaching experience: 
    Theory and practical courses in arthroscopic and prosthetic hip surgery at Medical Education

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Vincenzo De Santis

  • New
  • 25 years of experience
  • Italy, Rome, Mater Oblia Hospital
  • Dr. X is the Director of the Mater Olbia Hospital Orthopedics and Traumatology Complex Operational Unit. He has a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the School of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, and a PhD in Experimental methodologies and technological applications in Angiology, Vascular Surgery and Orthopedics. He has experience in hip and knee prosthetic surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopic surgery of the knee, computer assisted and robotic surgery. He has done over 5500 surgical procedures and has held teaching positions since 2009.

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