Lower Extremity Joint Preservation

lt;p>Prof. Mats Brittberg (MD,PhD) is focused on clinical tissue engineering with special  reference  on cartilage. Mats Brittberg served as President of the International Cartilage Repair Society from 2006 to 2008. He has also chaired the ESSKA 2000 Articular Cartilage Committee (2005-8) and is a past board member (2001-3) of Tissue Engineering Society International (now "TERMIS"). Prof. Brittberg has received various awards, including the Genzyme ICRS Lifetime Achievement Award in Cartilage Research (2010) and the UK Cartilage Club and SK Research Foundation Scientific Award (2012 and In 2014, Mats Brittberg also received the SKF and UK Cartilage Club's Life time achievement Award.He has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cartilage since 2013 and has served as an Associate Editor for Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (2009-14), as well as being a member of the editorial boards of various other journals. He is the author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has coedited several books, including the Springer publication Techniques in Cartilage Repair Surgery (2014). 

Konrad Slynarski, MD, PhD, is an orthopaedic surgeon working in the field of sports medicine with a particular focus on orthobiology, osteoarthritis, and cartilage repair. Since 2019 he has been Head of the Slynarski Knee Clinic in Warsaw, Poland, with responsibility for the treatment of patients with sports-related injuries and osteoarthritis. Prior to taking up this position, he was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Lekmed and CMS Sports Medicine Center, Warsaw (2007-2018). Dr Slynarski completed his MD and PhD degrees at The Medical University of Warsaw, Poland, and completed research fellowship at Case Western University, Cleveland, USA - with Arnold Caplan PhD on Mesenchymal Stem Cells - based cartilage repair (funded by the Polish-American Kosciuszko Foundation). He obtained his board certification in Orthopaedics and Traumatology in 2006. Dr. Slynarski was a founder and President of the Polish Arthroscopy Society and acted as Chairman of the International Joint Preservation Congresses held in Warsaw in 2013 - 2019. He is a current member of the ICRS, ESSKA Osteotomy Committee, and has also served on the ESSKA Cartilage Committee."

Introduction.-Part I Basic science and biologics:.-1 The New Age of Orthobiologics.-Part II Hip:.-2 Comprehensive Hip Preservation: Correction of Adult Hip Dysplasia and Repair of High-grade.-3 Anatomy of the hip- joint preservation point of view.-4 Anatomy, surgical management and postoperative outcomes of acetabular labral tears.-Part III Knee:.-5 Bone marrow stimulation techniques for cartilage repair.-6 One-Step Cell-Based Cartilage Repair in the Knee using Hyaluronic Acid-Based Scaffold Embedded with Mesenchymal Stem Cells Sourced from Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate (HA-BMAC).-7 Chondrocyte implantation.-8 Stem cells.-9 Fresh Allografts.-10 Synthetic and mini metal implants in the knee.-11 Knee Joint Preservation Rehabilitation.-12 Meniscus anatomy.-13 Current Concepts in Meniscus Pathology and Repair.-14 Meniscus allograft transplantation.-15 Biomaterials in meniscus repair.-16 Internal Bracing of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Posterior Cruciate Ligament with Suture Tape Augmentation.-17 ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION.-18 Preservation of the anterior cruciate ligament: arthroscopic primary repair of proximal tears.-19 The Anterolateral Ligament.-20 ACL and cartilage lesions.-21 Repair and reconstruction of the Medical Collateral Ligament.-22 THE POSTERO-LATERAL LIGAMENT COMPLEX OF THE KNEE.-23 Patella instability.-24 Arthroscopic Trochleoplasty.-25 Open Trochleoplasty.-26 Patellofemoral osteotomies.-27 Unloading Osteotomies.-28 Joint Unloading.-29 Gait analysis in malalignment.-30 Return to Sports after Surgery.-Part IV Ankle:.-31 Ankle joint Cartilage pathology and repair.-32 Ankle rehabilitation