They are in pain, waiting a year for wrist surgery. Artificial joints were missing in the Czech Republic for a long time

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Due to damaged cartilage, an elderly woman from the Moravian-Silesian region has been suffering from severe pain in her hands and wrists for a long time. Lky don’t help me. That’s why she agreed with the opinion of the left joint.

However, the deadline set for 2022 did not materialize. At the time, he was doing knee replacements all the way back then. The American manufacturer was allowed to die, he did not give a new one. To this day, the patient still goes to the surgery. But the horse has a new age. Marta Reichenbachov from Stonava says that she has helped others all her life and we cannot laugh at the fact that she is not doing very well.

My hands are throbbing and throbbing daily, not even at night. I have arthritis. Although I try to get up and stretch my fingers, I drink pretzels for my family and friends, my hands are so weak that sometimes things fall out of them. I had to plant felt and weed, only young people take care of the garden, describes her problems, a seventy-nine-year-old woman.

Patients who needed to replace the left joint had to wait a year or more because there was a lack of artificial replacements in the country. You have a new age. The model of the soft joint in the picture is only in the place where they used it instead of the original, worn one.

She was tired, but she was sick from the operation

When Radek Pavlin, the senior orthopedic surgeon at the Karvinsk mining hospital, offered a gradual replacement of damaged left joints for artificial ones, she did not hesitate. She waited for the first step. Svmu lkai vm. I have had both hip joints replaced for two years and nobody recognizes me when I walk, so maybe it will be the same with me, my name is Marta Reichenbachov.

In 2022, therefore, she went to the pedoperan for blood sampling without any worries. The operation just didn’t go well. At the hospital, they told me that there would be no surgery, because there were no artificial joints available, she recalled. I hope that the new term is filled for the summer of May at the flap. The new joint should arrive before the 80th birthday celebration.

Karvinsk prim of orthopedics Radek Pavlin confirms his words. Last fall, we had to cancel the appointments of several patients who had to undergo joint replacement with us. We found out that the endoprostheses, which we used for many years, are not available, and they really weren’t in stock at the time, at the Pavlin orthopedist.

Radek Pavlin, Prim of Orthopedics at the Karvinsk Mining Hospital, will be the first person in the country to replace the joints again by the end of May. The picture shows a model of the new soft joint.

There were only a few workers in the country who changed the joints of the wrist. The same problem with artificial replacements affected everyone, including the Faculty Hospital in Motola, which performed these operations more safely. Every year, we implant about those endoprosthesis plates in people with intact joints that have been damaged suddenly or due to a sensitive disease, most likely rheumatoid arthritis. Last year, unfortunately, we couldn’t operate on anyone, because we didn’t have dental implants available, says David Veigl, an orthopedist at the Motolsk Hospital.

According to him, the registration of this American manufacturer of artificial joints has expired in Czech Republic and other European countries, and its renewal would not be particularly profitable for him.

Operate again in Motola

Prv Veigl, which specializes in hand and elbow diseases, was the first this year to restore the left joint. He agreed with another company. It took a long time, but in the end it was possible to secure a complex joint registration for the local market.

In Czechia and other European countries where American implants were used in the back, all products are now approved. Anyone who wants to work with them, but must complete at least two courses in the field. J was the arrest of the year there, and I operate from the hole, to Veigl. At the orthopedic clinic in Motola, he replaced the left joint of about ten patients. He operated in the Chomutov hospital for two days, his specialist is just about to do the knee.

In Karvin zanou in Kvtno

Radek Pavlin is the second guy who has a knee behind him. We completed the first surgery on the left joint at the end of May. As a friend, Mr. Reichenbachov will come to the hospital about two weeks later, promises the head of orthopedics from the Karvinsk mining hospital.

However, both experts do not hide the fact that one hundred patients who could have been helped by the replacement of the left joint, do not make it. Due to severe pain, some people did not want to wait so long and chose another woman. During the operation, they reinforced the damaged joint with a titanium plate. They freed them from the pain of those pornos, but at the cost of the stiffened leg being unable to bend. And after such an operation, it is not technically possible to replace the joint.

The article is in Czech

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