San Donato Hospital Group

San Donato Hospital is a multidisciplinary medical center. Doctors treat diseases such as:

• Obesity and type 2 diabetes;
• Atrial flutter, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, ventricular tachycardia and other heart rhythm pathologies;
• Cardiomyopathy, heart valve disease, coronary heart disease;
• Inflammatory bowel disease, iron deficiency anemia, celiac disease, Crohn’s disease and other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
• Surgical pathology: hernias, polyps, inflammatory and malignant diseases of the small and large intestines, diseases of the pancreas, liver, breast;
• Arterial hypertension of renal origin, diseases of the urinary system;
• Diseases of the thyroid gland, pituitary gland, adrenal glands, osteoporosis;
• Dental diseases: dental implantation, periodontal treatment, cosmetic dentistry.

Clinic San Donato is one of the most famous centers for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases in Europe. For more than 50 years, congenital malformations, arrhythmias and other heart diseases have been treated here.

Every year, doctors perform more than 2,000 cardiac surgeries in children and adults, as well as 6,000 non-surgical interventions using catheters. The Department of Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology admits annually about 1400 patients for ablation. This is one of the highest rates in the world.

Extensive experience in the treatment of heart pathology made it possible to open a research center for the study of blood vessels and the heart on the basis of the clinic. It has been accredited by the Italian Ministry of Health as the Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS). Having a wealth of experience, the doctors of San Donato take on the most difficult cases, when there is nothing they can do to help at the place of residence of a foreign patient.

• Arrhythmology and electrophysiology;
• Cardiac surgery;
• Department of cardiac rehabilitation;
• Department of Interventional Cardiology;
• Department of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Pathology;
• Department of Vascular Surgery.

Since 2010, the San Donato Clinic has housed the National Institute of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Here, operations are performed on patients with type 2 diabetes and overweight. The priority of doctors is minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic and robotic surgeries.

During the year, more than 1500 operations of varying degrees of complexity are performed:

• Sleeve resection of the stomach;
• Gastric bypass;
• Banding of the stomach.

Together with surgeons, a team of specialists takes part in the treatment of the patient: nutritionists, endocrinologists, clinical physiologists and psychiatrists. This approach contributes to achieving the best results in treatment and quick rehabilitation of patients.

The Institute accepts patients who have already undergone treatment in other clinics, but did not achieve the desired results or received complications.

Director of the Institute of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Alesandro Giovanelli has performed more than 8,000 revision and surgical bariatric surgeries. The doctor operates using minimally invasive techniques using a da Vinci robot or mini-laparoscopy. Alesandro Jonavelli is a member of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO).

Specialists of the Department of Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology of the San Donato Clinic treat all types of cardiac arrhythmias, such as:

• atrioventricular block;
• Brugada syndrome;
• Ventricular and atrial tachycardia;
• Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and others;
• Bradycardia, etc.

Every year, more than 3,000 ablations and installations of artificial pacemakers are performed here using modern high-tech equipment. The department is equipped with 3 specialized laboratories for cardiac catheterization. Each laboratory is equipped with a computerized 3D navigation system and rotational angiography. This makes it possible to carry out several operations simultaneously without loss of quality and reduces the waiting time. For complex interventional interventions, the Stereotaxis Niobe II robotic navigation system is used. With its help, doctors can control the movement of the catheter under the control of a magnetic field. This helps to avoid complications and minimizes the error during the procedure.

The Department of Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology is headed by Professor Carlo Pappone, one of the leading specialists in the treatment of arrhythmia. The doctor has performed more than 130,000 ablations and 100,000 implantations of pacemakers and defibrillators. Professor Pappone is one of the most cited specialists in leading medical journals for his internationally recognized “Papone Approach” for the asymptomatic treatment of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and Brugada Syndrome.

• Transposition of the great vessels;
• Syndrome of hypoplasia of the left parts of the heart;
• Single ventricle of the heart;
• Atresia of the pulmonary artery;
• Mitral valve reconstruction;
• Double discharge of the main vessels from the right ventricle.

Doctors perform more than 500 complex surgical interventions with a postoperative mortality rate of less than 3%.

The San Donato Clinic has the most experience among European clinics in the treatment of congenital heart defects and complications after surgery for defects in adults:

• Pulmonary valve anomaly in patients previously operated on for tetralogy of Fallot;
• Arrhythmias in patients operated on for heart defects;
• Complications after surgery for a bicuspid aortic valve.

In the Department of Interventional Cardiology, doctors perform more than 6,000 interventions using a catheter, which is usually inserted into the patient through the femoral artery. This makes it possible to treat diseases of the heart and blood vessels that are not amenable to drug therapy without traumatization and long-term postoperative rehabilitation.

Doctors perform procedures such as:

• Сoronary angiography;
• Coronary angioplasty and vascular stenting;
• Reconstruction of the aortic and mitral valves;
• Replacement of aortic and mitral valves;
• Angioplasty of peripheral vessels;
• Angioplasty of the carotid artery.

The San Donato Clinic is located in Milan at Piazza Edmondo Malan, 2, 20097 San Donato Milanese MI, Italy.

You can get here from three airports: Linate, Malpensa and Bergamo. The closest one is Linate, it is only 10 kilometers from the clinic. You can get from the airport to the clinic in 15 minutes by bus number K512, which goes to the San Donato M3 station, after which you need to transfer to the C ROSSA bus (direction: S.Donato Milanese M3 – Marignano).

Also, MedTour coordinators can help with organizing a transfer from the airport to apartments near the clinic. MedTour helps with booking hotel rooms and apartments without additional financial charges and commissions.