{"id":277925,"date":"2026-03-31T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/christian-petrulio-md\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:01:23","slug":"christian-petrulio-md","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/christian-petrulio-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Petrulio MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>El Dr. Christian Petrulio es un cirujano de la mano con doble titulaci\u00f3n y formaci\u00f3n en Cirug\u00eda General y Cirug\u00eda de la Mano.  Se gradu\u00f3 con honores de la Universidad de Harvard despu\u00e9s de lo cual hizo la investigaci\u00f3n en los campos de la conservaci\u00f3n de la vida silvestre con el Fondo de Conservaci\u00f3n Chita en Namibia, \u00c1frica y luego la investigaci\u00f3n virolog\u00eda en la Universidad de Nueva York Escuela de Medicina, de donde pas\u00f3 a recibir su doctorado en medicina.\n<\/p>\n<p>Realiz\u00f3 su formaci\u00f3n quir\u00fargica en Cirug\u00eda General en el Hospital Presbiteriano de Nueva York del Centro M\u00e9dico de la Universidad de Columbia, durante la cual realiz\u00f3 una beca en Oncolog\u00eda Quir\u00fargica centrada en el desarrollo de vacunas para el tratamiento del melanoma.  A continuaci\u00f3n, se especializ\u00f3 en microcirug\u00eda y cirug\u00eda de la mano en el Instituto Kleinert-Kutz de la Universidad de Louisville, donde particip\u00f3 en el segundo y tercer trasplante de mano realizados en Estados Unidos.\n<\/p>\n<p>Al finalizar su formaci\u00f3n quir\u00fargica, se uni\u00f3 a una pr\u00e1ctica de Cirug\u00eda de la Mano en Austin, Texas, durante cinco a\u00f1os antes de unirse a Southcoast Physicians Group en 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sus \u00e1reas de especializaci\u00f3n incluyen tratamientos m\u00ednimamente invasivos para la compresi\u00f3n nerviosa, incluido el s\u00edndrome del t\u00fanel carpiano y la compresi\u00f3n del nervio cubital.  Otros problemas tratados con frecuencia son la artritis del pulgar, los dedos en gatillo, las contracturas de Dupuytrens y todo tipo de traumatismos de la mano y la mu\u00f1eca, incluidas las lesiones \u00f3seas, tendinosas y nerviosas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":287511,"template":"","specialty":[46,193,192],"language":[],"keywords":[1305,1028,1261,1306,1029,1262],"address":[360],"class_list":["post-277925","doctors","type-doctors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialties-hand-surgery","specialties-orthopedic-surgery","specialties-orthopedics","keywords-hand","keywords-hand-pain","keywords-hand-surgery","keywords-wrist","keywords-wrist-pain","keywords-wrist-surgery","addresses-162_270"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christian Petrulio MD - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/christian-petrulio-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christian Petrulio MD - Southcoast Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Christian Petrulio is a double board certified, fellowship trained hand surgeon with board certification in both General Surgery and Hand Surgery. 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