Moscow doctors performed a unique operation on a patient from Austria with a defibrillator
A patient from Austria successfully had her hip joint replaced at the Veresaev City Clinical Hospital
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- Moscow doctors from the Veresaev City Clinical Hospital successfully performed a hip replacement operation on a 67-year-old patient from Austria who suffered from arthrosis.
- Because the woman had a defibrillator, doctors used a special plasma instrument.
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Why It Matters
A sixty-seven-year-old patient from Austria suffered from arthrosis of the hip joint for 15 years.
Moscow doctors from the Veresaev City Clinical Hospital helped a patient from Austria with arthrosis of the hip joint by performing an operation to replace the joint with an artificial one, the capital’s Department of Health reported.
“A sixty-seven-year-old woman for 15 years suffered from pain due to arthrosis of the hip joint and from Austria decided to seek treatment at a Moscow clinic,” the department said in a statement on the channel on the Max platform.
It is clarified that the peculiarity of the case was the defibrillator installed in the woman to control the heart rhythm, so the doctors of the Veresaev City Clinical Hospital used a plasma instrument, which made it possible to carry out the operation without turning off the device.
“We replaced the affected joint with an artificial one and used plasma technology: a special device uses a flow of ionized gas to work with tissues instead of electric current,” said the head of the trauma department, Alexey Vdovin, whose words are quoted in the message.
Open Questions
- How is the patient doing in the long term?
