About Us

Organization information


The "Luigi Sacco Hospital" in Milan, a university teaching hospital in Northern Italy, is a reference center for ISCLS. Our medical and nurse team take care of patients affected by this clinical condition, offers consulting services for doctors from other centers in Italy and Europe, and conducts experimental research togheter with the University of Milan.

Experience

The Medicina Generale ward and Intensive Care Unit have been caring for ISCLS patients since the '90s. Over the years, we have gained expertise not only in managing the acute phases of the disease but also in the long-term management of relapse prevention. We have the largest case series in the world of patients treated at the same center by the same team.


About us

Maddalena Alessandra Wu, M.D.

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Riccardo Colombo, M.D.

Specialist in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, works as an intensivist in the General ICU of the Luigi Sacco Hospital in Milan. He managed many life-threatening crises of Idiopathic Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome and published peer reviewed medical article on this topic. He is the co-foundator of the Capillary Leak Global Project.

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