FOREIGN PATIENTS OPERATED

ELECTIVE SURGERY TREATMENT OF FOREIGN PATIENTS:

FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING 

WITH MINI-INVASIVE TECHNIQUE IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA

- October 2023 a 34-years-old man from Algeria;

- September 2023,  a 42-years-old woman from Austria;

- September 2023, a 37-years-old woman from USA;

- September 2023, a 25-years-old man from Portugal;

- July 2023, a 35-years-old woman from France;

- May 2023, a 23-years-old woman from USA;

- May 2023, a 39-years-old woman from Portugal;

- 31th March 2023, a 34-years-old woman from France;

- 10th March 2023, a 34-years-old woman from France;

- December 2022, a 25-year-old man from France;

- June 2022, a 18-year-old woman from Ireland;

- June 2022, a 29-year-old woman from The Netherlands;

- March 2022, a 30-year-old man from Germany;

- May 2021, a 22-year-old woman from France;

- May 2021, a 42-year-old man from France;

- May 2021, a 39-year-old woman from France;

- May 2021, a40-year-old man from England;

- May 2021, a 31-year-old woman from Romania;

- March 2020, a 32-year-old woman from France; 

- October 2019, a 53-year-old woman from France; 

- September 2019, a 35-year-old man from Belgium; 

- May 2019, a 45-year-old patient woman France; 

- March 2019, a 49-year-old woman from Brazil; 

- March 2019, a 36-year-old man from the USA; 

- January 2019, first patient from another continent, a 28-year-old woman from Brazil; 

- September 2018, a 25-year-old man from Poland; 

- October 2017, a 33-year-old man from Hungary. The medical commission of his country has considered ours a center of excellence and, thanks to the European law for cross-border care and the use of the S2 model, the costs have been borne by the Hungarian Health System; 

- In 2015 the first foreign patient, a 36-year-old man from Bosnia.


FROM 2010 ABOUT 400 ITALIAN PATIENTS FROM 17 ITALIAN REGIONS HAVE BEEN TREATED WITH MINI-INVASIVE SURGERY OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING.

Patients from Europe and America operated with minimally invasive surgical technique under local anaesthesia of the extradural section of the filum terminale.

Currently there are 22 European patients, 5 from the American continent and 1 from Africa, in addition to about 400 Italian patients.

Book testimony of a French patient operated on section of the extradural filum terminale under local anesthesia: cover image of the book.

Text written in French.

Book testimony of a French patient: image of the back cover of the book.

In the final part of the text, reference is made to the extradural section of the filum terminale under local anaesthesia performed by me in Italy.

July 2023,
a 35 year-old woman from France.

May 2023,
a 23 year-old woman from USA.

May 2023,
a 39 year-old woman from Portugal.

March 2023,
a 34 year-old woman from France.

March 2023,
a 34 year-old woman from France.

December 2022,
a 25-year-old man from France.

June 2022,
a 18-year-old woman from Ireland.

June 2022,
a 29-year-old woman from The Netherlands.

March 2022,
a 30-year-old man from Germany.

May 2021,
a 22-year-old woman from France.

May 2021,
a 42-year-old man from France.

May 2021,
a 39-year-old woman from France.

May 2021,
a 40-year-old man from England.

May 2021,
a 31-year-old woman from Romania.

March 2020,
a 32-year-old woman from France.

October 2019,
a 53-year-old woman from France.

September 2019,
a 35-year-old man from Belgium.

May 2019,
a 45-year-old woman from France.

March 2019,
a 49-year-old woman from Brazil.

March 2019,
a 36-year-old man from the USA.

January 2019,
a 28-year-old woman from Brazil.

September 2018,
a 25-year-old man from Poland.

October 2017,
a 33-year-old man from Hungary.

In 2015,
a 36-year-old man from Bosnia.

PATIENTS IN WHICH TETHERED CORD OR OCCULT TETHERED CORD IS ASSOCIATED WITH CHIARI MALFORMATION TYPE I: MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS

THE TETHERED CORD OR OCCULT TETHERED CORD MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH CHIARI MALFORMATION TYPE I, IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH, IN A CLEAR WAY, THE BORDER BETWEEN THE SYMPTOMS OF ONE AND OF THE OTHER PATHOLOGY.

THE SYMPTOMS THAT USUALLY ASSOCIATE WITH THE TETHERED CORD OR OCCULT TETHERED CORD ARE LUMBAR OR SACRAL PAIN, IN THE LOWER LIMBS MAY HAVE PAIN, PARESTHESIA AND EASY TIRABILITY, DISORDERS IN URINARY AND FECAL SPHINCTERS MAY BE PRESENT.

FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING WITH MINI-INVASIVE TECHNIQUE IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA IS NOT THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CHIARI MALFORMATION TYPE I.

THE TREATMENT OF CHIARI MALFORMATION TYPE I IS CRANIAL DECOMPRESSION IN POSTERIOR FOSSA, WITH THE DIFFERENT TECHNICAL VARIANTS. 

HOWEVER, IN MY EXPERIENCE, IN PATIENTS WITH TETHERED CORD OR OCCULT TETHERED CORD EVEN SOME DISORDERS TYPICALLY CONNECTED TO THE CHIARI MALFORMATION TYPE I CAN IMPROVE AFTER THE FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING.

March 2022

Patient with occult tethered cord, scoliosis, cervical and dorsal syringomyelia.
Operated in Italy in March 2022.
Patient already improved a few weeks after surgery, to read the testimony click on the link below.

Testimony April 2022

May 2021

Patient with Chiari malformation type I operated in France in 2005 for decompression in the posterior cranial fossa. 
Operated in Italy in May 2021 for a section of the extradural filum terminale with dramatic and immediate improvement of the symptoms. 
The patient's long and detailed testimony can be read by clicking on the link below.

MARCH 2020.

FRENCH PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBMITTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN A PRONE POSITION IN ITALY.
This is the patient review on the Qsalute website: "A first-rate team, very helpful, that puts you at ease, and very professional. Hygiene at the top. 

They changed my life. 

Already the day after the intervention, the tingling in the hands and feet was gone. 

For the rest, it will only take time. 

Thanks to the staff and especially to Dr. Veronesi Vanni."

OCTOBER 2019

FRENCH PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBMITTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION.
This is the patient review on the Qsalute site:
"I met Dr. Veronesi after a wander between doctors and years of suffering, so much so that I quit my job. I am French and the neurologists I was able to "visit" in France gave me little listening time and poor solutions for my generalized pain and fatigue. I have a form of syringomyelia. The only thing are the drugs, which for me are more destined to fatten the pharmaceutical companies without solving my problem ... My meeting with Mr Veronesi went beyond my expectations. Mr Veronesi is a person who puts within the reach of his patients, who took the trouble to interpret all the magnetic resonances brought from France, to explain them to me (which no neurologist had done in France) and, after a long evaluation, offered me the SFT (TERMINAL FILUM SECTION) intervention as a solution.
I was operated on 29 October at the Faenza hospital by Dr. Vanni Veronesi. The effect was immediate! I had the opportunity to meet a beautiful person, humble, friendly and human, I cannot thank him enough for allowing me to resume a normal life ... I also thank all the staff of the public hospital in Faenza that I was able to meet, all very competent and very friendly.
This testimony, for all those looking for a neurosurgeon as they no longer exist !! Thanks Mr. Veronesi, you are a very beautiful person and you have brought the sun back to my life! "

SEPTEMBER 2019

BELGIAN PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBJECTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION.
This is the patient review on the Qsalute website:
"I was operated by Dr. Vanni Veronesi, by far the best doctor I have met in my life.
Maximum capacity and availability never seen before. I remember the first time I met him, he told me he was trying to treat the patient as if he were his brother.
And I confirm that I felt that it was so.
Thank you dear doctor. "

DIAGNOSIS: CHIARI TYPE I MALFORMATION AND OCCULT TETHERED CORD

MAY 2019

FRENCH PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBMITTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION.

DIAGNOSIS: CHIARI TYPE I MALFORMATION AND OCCULT TETHERED CORD

MARCH 2019

BRAZILIAN PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBMITTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION IN ITALY.

MARCH 2019

AMERICAN PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBMITTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION.
The patient was discharged from the hospital the day after the surgery, after a week he had already returned to the USA.
In an exchange of information via the Internet with Paul, about two months after the surgery, he reports that he feels better day after day and that he has more energy and less pain.

JANUARY 2019

BRAZILIAN PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBMITTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION IN ITALY.
10 months after the operation, the patient alternates between good days and bad days with some pains that vary from day to day. 
There are days when she is well and suddenly pains appear. 
There are also nice days when he wakes up well and spends the day painlessly.

SEPTEMBER 2020

POLISH PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBJECTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION.The postoperative course was characterized by a ready autonomous mobilization after about three hours from the surgical intervention.
The patient was discharged the day after the surgery.
In the last contact by email, in March 2020, Rafal confirms the improvement and that he no longer has head and spinal column pain.
The check-up MRI highlights the disappearance of the small syringomyelic cavity C6-C7.

OCTOBER 2017


HUNGARIAN PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBJECTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION.
The patient after a few hours after the surgery, he mobilized himself and the following day he was discharged from the hospital.
In the most recent e-mail, two years after the surgery, of the various sy that the patient presented he reports improvement of those in the lower limbs.

OCTOBER 2015

BOSNIAN PATIENT SUBJECT TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF FILUM TERMINALE EXTERNUM SECTIONING IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA AFTER HAVING BEEN SUBJECTED TO LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION.
This is the link for patient review, IN ITALIAN, on the Qsalute website
REVIEW IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS REPORTED IN THE PART BELOW
THIS YOUNG MAN WAS THE FIRST FOREIGN PATIENT SUBJECTED TO OUR INNOVATIVE PROTOCOL WITH LUMBAR MRI IN THE PRONE POSITION AND MINI-INVASIVE SURGERY OF EXTRADURAL FILUM TERMINALE EXTRADURAL SECTIONING.

Review by BOSNIAN PATIENT on Qsalute website

Italy should be proud

After years of research for the cause of my problems, there was a suspicion that I was suffering from a rare condition called occult tethered cord syndrome. Doctors in my country know very little about this condition, so we needed help getting the right diagnosis. 

On the internet I found an e-mail address of Veronesi M.D. and asked him if he also treated international patients. A few days later, the answer was in my inbox: of course I treat them, what's your problem, what needs to be solved? First, he helped me get a correct diagnosis, he sent me a document describing a way to do a prone MRI, thus allowing me to do the lumbar MRI in a prone position at the hospital in my country. He was under no obligation to do so, I live in another country. I immediately understood that he is an extraordinary man. Then I went to the first checkup in Italy, and the surgery was scheduled for about a year later. The intervention is quick and painless and the hospital stay is short. My recovery was incredible, my condition improved very quickly after the surgery: there was no back pain, the pain in the legs was gone, the urological condition started to improve and I was sleeping much better than before of surgery. One year after the surgery my condition improved further, only minor urological problems are still present. It is important to note that I am 38 years old, so I am a case of adult occult tethered cord syndrome, neglected for years because the doctors in my country did not know how to help me. I didn't know what to expect, instead the surgery was effective and successful. Now my life is easier, my problems are minor after the surgery. 

This is the professionalism of Veronesi M.D., he is truly remarkable, honest man, not easy to find these days. Thanks also to Sacco M.D. and all the hospital staff. Italy should be proud of you!

LAST UPDATE 15th OCTOBER 2023

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