In the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG), for the first time, surgical procedures for the correction of scoliosis deformity of the spinal column were performed, it was announced from that health institution.
It is stated that the orthopedists of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG), Aleksandar Jušković and Marko Borovinić, together with the eminent Turkish expert Čagatay Ozturk, performed three operations for idiopathic scoliosis in girls aged 12 to 17 years.
"The operations were performed as they are done in world-renowned health institutions with complete correction of the deformity," the statement said.
As KCCG said, one operation was particularly demanding because it was performed on a child with Marfan syndrome - a rare hereditary connective tissue disease that leads to disorders in the development of bones, eyes, heart and blood vessels, which is much more complex than idiopathic scoliosis.
"One very complex infection of the spinal column with abscesses at multiple levels was also performed, as well as one vertebroplasty in a younger patient with an osteoporotic fracture, and severe spinal deformity according to the type of degenerative changes," the KCCG stated.
In this way, as they stated, the KCCG orthopedists achieved what they had already planned, namely the introduction of spine deformity surgery in children, thus rounding off the entire aspect of spine surgery.
"This project, in addition to comfort for our patients, because they receive health care in their own country, will enable significant savings," said the KCCG, stating that the performance of these operative procedures in reference European centers costs up to 300 thousand euros per patient.
"It is also important to emphasize that, with the support of Professor Čagataj, the performance of these operations in our institution, first of all, enables the education of our doctors to independently perform these complex procedures," says the announcement.
KCCG said that they are planning more such operations in the future and that they already have candidates for children, as well as a number of very difficult cases that the surrounding centers could not accept due to their complexity.
"In this way, we provide patients with comfort, safety of operations and, of course, significantly reduce the costs that until now the Health Insurance Fund had to bear for their treatment, even on multiple occasions, in institutions in the surrounding area," the statement added.
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