Beneficiated more than 4 500 Cubans with bony implant

In the last five years in Cuba have benefitted more than 4 500 patients with implant of bony fabric, processed in the Bank of the International Orthopedic Scientific Complex Frank Country, an expert announced.

The doctor Manuel Jaca, production vicedirector of having knitted implants of the institution, explained to the AIN that most of the patients were operated in that hospital center, and also apply proceeding in Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, Matanzas, Holguín, and Pinar del Río.

Implant them of bony webs are used in seudoartrosis, fractures that don't consolidate well, benign or wicked bony cysts, tumors, hip fractures, to form a better channel for the hip prothesis, or of knee, the specialist of II Grade in Cardiovascular Surgery added.

There are also used in the escoliosis surgery to make the fixation and to create a new column, and in other to restore the size of the bone, asserted the physician.

Jaca, next to the professor Rodrigo Álvarez Cambras, will impart a conference about the topic in the International Congress of Orthopedics, in Bayamo, Granma whose sessions will extend up to September 26.

The same as the skin, the bone allows the prosecution and storage during long time, contrary to other organs like the cornea, the kidney, the heart, the lung or another fabric, the expert emphasized.

In the Bank of websof the Frank País skin is also processed to use it in burnt and other medical specialties.

Jaca announced that they work in the investigations to put to point in Cuba the employment of bovine bone in the human's substitution.

At the moment they process the web fabric, also pericardium for the repair of the hernias inguinals and abdominal, and produce swinish skin, of great demand in the services of burnt.

This web, delimited the physician, besides removing him the pain to the patient, it allows that grows the normal web under, avoids the loss of liquid, it is of immediate employment and it has saved many lives.(Iris de Armas Padrino)