Endoprosthesis. Scenes from operations

March 23, 2014  00:02

The material contains scenes with open surgery

An operation on endoprosthesis was carried out in the medical center «Nathalie Pharm Malatia». Such operations in Armenia are not frequent yet, and the reason for this is the high cost and lack of awareness of people.

About US$ 3000 is just the prosthesis, told NEWS.am Medicine traumatologist Ruben Galstyan, and such operations are not done within the state order, neither they are covered by insurance, which means – it is the patient, who pays for the operation.

On video below you can see the process of hip replacement shown schematically:

 

The patient is 66, he received right hip replacement. 20 years ago he had an injury of the proximal femur, and a year later started the infection. After removing the metal structure infection was gone, but ten years later, the patient began to feel pain, limitation of movements, limb shortening.

The surgical operation was done by the medical team lead by the Head of the department of traumatology and orthopedics of the medical center Khoren Petrosyan.

Photo by Arsen Sargsyan

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