The first patient, who had a part of the tibia restored, again went to the area of the special operation, the Russian Defense Ministry saidMOSCOW, November 19.
/tass/. Military doctors of the Main Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Russia named after N. N. Burdenko in Moscow for the first time in medical practice have developed and implemented a new method of 3D modeling of implants for the full restoration of the limbs of patients who received severe mine-explosive and gunshot wounds during a special military operation. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"A new development of military doctors of the hospital named after Burdenko will allow creating an individual three-dimensional customized implant for each patient, fully corresponding in size and shape to the lost bone fragment of the victim. The implant is installed in the area of the defect, after which it is filled with elements of bone tissue specially grown using stem cells of the wounded, followed by the addition of muscle tissue and fragments from the patient's body," the department reported.
They noted that earlier such injuries often led, among other things, to amputation of limbs. "The rehabilitation of patients sometimes took several years, while some of the patients were not able to restore the full functioning of the damaged limbs," the Ministry of Defense stressed, adding that the use of an innovative method of limb restoration significantly reduces the recovery and rehabilitation of victims. The first patient to whom such an operation was performed and a part of the tibia was restored, fully recovered in the shortest possible time and, at his own request, went back to the area of the SVO.
"The method developed by military doctors is unique. No one does such operations in the world with gunshot wounds, except specialists of the N. N. Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital. Now gunshot wounds of the limbs are so severe that they lead to the absence of whole limb segments, such as bone and muscle tissue, in the place of bullets or shrapnel. As a result of the operation, the bone is actually recreated in a so-called "case" made of titanium, perfectly repeating the missing fragment," the department quoted the words of the deputy head of the hospital for research, Deputy chief traumatologist of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Leonid Brizhan. Brizhan noted that this method of recovery is already widely used in the hospital and will soon become available to a wide range of medical institutions.
