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Hip Operations

Those are daily bread of orthopedic surgeons everywhere in the world.

Osteoarthritis is frequent among the aging population.

Prosthetic material is employed, which needs to be changed after 10-20 years, because it is used up.

The second operation is not without difficulty.

Since a long time, limb amputations are replaced by an allograft, from a compatible dead donor.

Collected experience is encouraging.

A low-dose anti-rejection medicine is needed.

After a while the graft becomes populated by cells of the own body to such a point that medication can even be interrupted.

A bunch of surgeons is extremely well experienced in those interventions.

I think for them it would not be very difficult to proceed to an allograft replacement of the whole hip joint.

A fenestration of the articular capsula should be provided to protect cartilage from simple pressure injury induced by a rejection reaction.

Recently researchers announced that they succeeded in converting fat cells into cartilage ones.

Perhaps, this technique could be combined with intra-articular injections of cartilage off cartilage after the allograft.

Such a procedure could reduce rejection reaction inside the joint.