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Doctors at the First Moscow State Medical University treat osteoarthritis, a progressive joint disease, using a unique and completely new technique. Cartilage cells are removed from the patient and grown in the laboratory using special technology. The resulting biomedical cellular product is then returned to the person and transplanted to the defect area of the knee joint. During each of the two hospitalizations (during cell collection and their reimplantation), the patient spends no more than three days in the clinic.
After this, the person must undergo rehabilitation treatment, be under the supervision of a doctor for at least a year and periodically undergo examinations. During this time, he undergoes MRI scans of the knee joint several times so that doctors can monitor the rehabilitation outlook.
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The new technique restores cartilage tissue, stops osteoarthritis and helps prevent disability. Scientists hope that in the future other joints: the hip, ankle and shoulder can be treated with this method.
“This technology, unique in our country, has been the subject of a multicenter clinical study,” said the director of the traumatology, orthopedics and joint pathology clinic at Clinical Hospital No. 1, head of the traumatology, orthopedics and disaster surgery department. . at the Institute of Clinical Medicine. SNOWFALL. Sklifosovsky Sechenov University, Doctor of Medical Sciences Alexey Lychagin. – Our partner, the Generium company, received a license for the production of biomedical cellular products (BMCP), then we successfully carried out clinical trials of the new technique. We can now replace defects in the cartilage of the knee joint with autologous (i.e. “native” to the patient – editor’s note) BMCP. A new technique to stop cartilage destruction may save you from joint replacement surgery and disability. At the same time, unlike a standard operation, the rehabilitation period is faster and more comfortable, and the result lasts a long time. This technique also has a preventive effect and prevents many pathological changes in the entire human musculoskeletal system.
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– Several surgeons from Sechenov University have already completed a training course for this new operation. We have also trained nursing staff and rehabilitation specialists, who are in contact with the patient at all stages and must master all the nuances. We believe that the use of this new technology is extremely beneficial to our country as it will help put many young and active citizens on their feet. Today we can talk about hundreds of people who need this technique, but over time, when we expand the indications for surgery, we will talk about tens of thousands,” says the traumatologist-orthopedist from the traumatology, orthopedics and joint pathology clinic. UKB-1, associate professor of the department of traumatology, orthopedics and disaster surgery at the ICM named after him. SNOWFALL. Sklifosovsky Sechenov University, Doctor of Medical Sciences Evgeny Kalinsky.
