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Combined Transplant: Ligaments and Meniscus

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“At “Pinerolo Hospital, the” team of the complex Orthopedics structure performed for the first time a delicate combined intervention of meniscal transplant, tibial corrective osteotomy and revision of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with cadaveric allograft under arthroscopic assistance.

Last summer, they had performed a first elbow prosthesis intervention. In autumn 2021, instead, the first cadaveric meniscal transplant via arthroscopy. In all three cases, these were absolute “firsts” for Pinerolo, using rarely applied and highly complex surgical techniques. These techniques are performed only in very few reference centers.

First Combined Transplant of Ligaments and Meniscus

The latest case, the combined transplant of ligaments and meniscus, was performed by Dr. Mario Formagnana, orthopedic surgeon at “Agnelli Hospital, assisted by an” international team that availed itself of the collaboration of Dr. Simone Perelli and Dr. Gonzalo Rojas, with the support of “the team of the Pinerolo Orthopedics Department, particularly Dr. Marco Gulmini and Dr. Leonardo Coltella, along with the operating room staff and the” anesthesiology team led by Dr. Mauro Pastorelli.

The meniscus transplant is performed on young patients selected based on precise clinical parameters and who present initial knee wear due to a previous meniscus injury or removal. The intervention in Pinerolo was performed on a 37-year-old patient, previously operated on at another hospital for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and medial meniscus removal, with subsequent failure of the intervention due to re-rupture of the new ligament and onset of knee cartilage wear. The new intervention performed at Agnelli Hospital, which was perfectly successful, allowed the patient to recover knee stability and function, and already now, mobility recovery. The transplant, made possible through the organ donation system and thanks to the generosity of the donor’s family, aims to prevent the knee from developing early arthritis. “

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Father-son Tendon Transplant: on Fanpage

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Father-to-son tendon transplant: Fanpage has also covered this innovative procedure, the first in Italy.

“For the first time in Italy, an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery of the knee was performed using a transplant from a living donor. The recipient was a 14-year-old boy from Pinerolo (Turin), while the donor was his father.

For the first time in Italy, a reconstruction surgery of an anterior cruciate ligament of the knee was performed using a transplant from a living donor. The recipient was a 14-year-old boy from Pinerolo (Turin), while the donor was his father. The surgical procedure was carried out in the Orthopedics department directed by Dr. Sergio Ronco.

With this technique, already used in Australia and Spain, the Orthopedics team is now developing a protocol for the procedure. This will then be shared with other specialized centers to be adopted at a national level. .

“We performed the surgery simultaneously in two operating rooms,” explains Formagnana. “In one, we harvested the tendons from the father, and in the other, we used them to reconstruct the cruciate ligament in the son.” Until now in Italy, either autologous tendons (one’s own) or tendons from deceased donors distributed by Tissue Banks have been used for reconstruction. The latter provide excellent results in adult patients, while in pediatric patients they have shown a high failure rate, which often discourages their use. “

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“this is how I Treat the Knees of Sports Champions”

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“This is how I treat the knees of sports champions”. The young surgeon from Piacenza, specialized in traumatology, works at the Institut Català de Medicina and follows the athletes of the Barcelona sports club. “It was an opportunity to seize immediately”.

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