New hip prostheses, surgeon: “Clinical study on a ceramic model”

I was expected as a revolution in the field of hip prostheses especially for young patients, but to see devices with ceramic coating in Italy “we would still have to wait”. Taking stock with Adnkronos Salute is Alessandro Calistri, orthopedist and traumatologist specializing in hip surgery and researcher in the Department of Anatomical, Histological, Medical Legal and Locomotor Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome. “A series of targeted clinical investigations have begun, carried out in reference centers where it is possible with strict criteria to select patients who want to access these preliminary studies and to test the ceramic prosthesis system in the population at risk that does not find an answer. with other implants “, said Calistri who will be the protagonist of a video interview that will be broadcast next week on the ‘Doctor’s Life’ channel, the first medical-scientific information television channel dedicated to doctors and pharmacists, published by Adnkronos Salute . Could they arrive by 2022? “It is difficult – he explains – the clinical investigation is at an advanced stage, there are already 500 operations carried out with ceramic-on-ceramic implants and thousands of cases with those with the polyethylene system. But in recent years the Ce marking of the implants has become more rigid. This guarantees safety for people but slows down the entry of new devices “. Has the Covid pandemic had consequences on patients with orthopedic problems and waiting for a hip replacement forced to postpone the operation? “In the outpatient clinic I see patients who, from the immobility due to Covid, have begun to develop symptoms with respect to their degenerative problems – observes Calisti – many think that the movement can worsen the situation of the hip or knee but it is not so, the best . So we have that the immobility, also the result of Covid, has led to an acceleration of the conditions in these subjects in those who were pathological but not symptomatic “. Those who have postponed an operation “now must not be afraid”, confirms the surgeon “today you can operate in the hospital safely”.