Sheikh Khalifa Medical City revealed that an artificial cartilage transplant took place in the foot joint that lasted 60 minutes, and the procedure was performed for a citizen patient (51 years old), who was then able to leave the hospital the next day of the operation, and walk without difficulties after putting his foot in a medical shoe Special.
In detail, the doctor who performed the operation, consultant of foot and ankle surgery, Dr. Moez Bilal, explained that joint foot roughness is one of the common diseases that affect the front area of the foot, and its causes are usually the result of old injuries or fractures and often age, where the patient begins to complain about the presence of Pain and swelling in the base of the toe.
He pointed out that the initial degrees of the disease (first and second) during which the patient feels stiffness in movement and the beginnings of pain, while the patient complains in the advanced degrees of chronic and persistent pain where the cartilage of the foot in this case has completely eroded, and the degree of erosion is determined through the X-ray that shows the degree of Stiffness, wear or roughness in the foot joint.
Bilal said, “The transplant process takes about an hour, where an opening is made in the front of the thumb joint, through which the bone protrusion resulting from the sclerosis is removed, and then only a small part of the foot thumb bone is removed, after which the artificial cartilage is implanted, and after the operation is placed The patient's foot is in a medical shoe, and he is allowed to go out on the same day of operation, or the next day, and he can walk straight away, as the foot is not placed in gypsum.
He added: «This process is new, as it began to be performed in the past five years, where the medical community witnessed the emergence of a new type of operation to treat the roughness of the base of the thumb, and this process requires the cultivation of artificial cartilage, which is a water gel made from the same material from which the lenses are made Eye adhesives and tears.
Bilal continued: «This operation is one of the operations that keep the patient moving in the joint of the base of the thumb, and is an alternative to the process known in the past, which is the process of fixing the joint», noting that in the initial stages of roughness of the base of the thumb, the treatment is usually without Surgical intervention through pain relievers, and sometimes the joint is injected with substances that sometimes include anesthetic anesthetic or cortisone to reduce the intensity of allergies, but this treatment is not useful for advanced degrees of roughness of the foot, which requires the surgical intervention of stabilizing the joint, or cultivating cartilage Industrial or joint dressing process .