Doctors in Kerch began to perform high-tech operations on knee arthroplasty

To carry out such operations, the specialists of the traumatology department were trained in prosthetics, the necessary consumables were purchased from the medical organization, and the purchase of power equipment continues.— the press service of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Crimea Konstantin Skorupsky quotes.

Endoprosthesis replacement of the knee joints is performed if there are indications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative-dystrophic diseases (gonarthrosis), neoplasms, deformities, contracture of the knee joint, etc.

According to the quotas allocated by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Crimea, this year in the Kerch city hospital No. N. I. Pirogov, it is planned to perform 100 operations for primary prosthetics of the knee joint and 20 operations for revision prosthetics (replacement of the knee or hip joint), which is performed when the primary prosthesis is unstable. In addition, the medical institution provides the possibility of medical rehabilitation in the field of «traumatology and orthopedics» and already on the 5th-6th day after the operation, patients are transferred to rehabilitation beds.

Endoprosthetics of limb joints in the Republic of Crimea is carried out in medical organizations located in Simferopol, Evpatoria, Yalta and now in Kerch. The work done makes it possible to increase the availability of high-tech medical care for residents of the Eastern Crimea, increase the number of operations in this profile in the region, and therefore help a much larger number of patients— notes Konstantin Skorupsky.

The following year, in the Kerch city hospital No. N. I. Pirogov also plans to introduce hip arthroplasty.

source: press service of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Crimea