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“a Father’s Gift” on Fanpage

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A Father’s Gift. On Fanpage, the article dedicated to the first living donor acl reconstruction in Italy.

A Father’s Gift. The Tendon Transplant

“Lorenzo is 15 years old and has been playing football since he was 4. His first word was “goal”, but his dream was at risk of fading after an injury on the field that led to a tear in his anterior cruciate ligament. His father, Alessandro, saved this great passion by donating his knee tendon to Lorenzo to allow the reconstruction of the cruciate ligament and significantly reduce the risk of a new injury in the future. The operation, performed at the Pinerolo hospital in Turin by orthopedic surgeons Mario Formagnana and Simone Perelli, was the first in Italy to involve tendon transplantation from one living being to another.

The first father-to-son tendon transplant in Italy. The story of Alessandro and Lorenzo has moved and touched the country, both for the “love shown by a father and for the courage and professionalism of the doctors who completed the” operation. Fanpage.it went to Piacenza, where Lorenzo is undergoing rehabilitation.

Lorenzo is a 15-year-old teenager, with clear ideas about his passions from a very young age: “My first word – he tells Fanpage.it – was goal. I started playing soccer at 4 years old in a small team in Piacenza and I never stopped”.

The Injury and the Tendon Transplant

Until last year, when Lorenzo got injured on the field: “We were playing the semifinal of our championship and while controlling a ball, I put my knee down badly. I immediately knew something had gone wrong”.

Lorenzo looks at the coach on the bench. He is helped and subsequently taken to the emergency room, but further tests will be needed for a diagnosis: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee.”

Read the full article on Fanpage

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Father-Son Tendon Transplant

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Father-to-son Tendon Transplant: the First in Italy.

Team Led by Dr. Simone Perelli, Expert in Knee Surgery

A “very delicate operation, performed without any complications, was carried out in recent weeks at the” Agnelli hospital in Pinerolo (Turin). “The procedure, a father-to-son tendon transplant, the first of its kind in Italy, was performed by Piacenza surgeon Simone Perelli. Dr. Perelli has been working for seven years at the” Icatme in Barcelona, a prestigious Catalan institute for sports traumatology and medicine.

This time, it wasn’t the stars of Barcelona or the world tennis that Perelli is used to seeing under the knife, but a 13-year-old boy from Piacenza, recovering from a serious injury sustained in a football match.

“The exceptional nature of the” procedure lies not only in the complexity of the “operation, which required two operating rooms with respective medical teams working simultaneously, but in overcoming certain ethical barriers. In fact, Perelli and his colleague from the” Pinerolo hospital, Marco Formagnana, had to obtain authorizations from the Regional Transplant Center and draw up a lengthy protocol to allow the 45-year-old father of the boy to donate ligaments. The case is set to become a precedent in our country. Italy thus aligns itself with the United States, Spain, and Australia, where similar operations (with two living patients) are an established practice.

Here you can find the complete article

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