Medical and technical advances – particularly minimally invasive surgical techniques, innovative implants such as the A2® short stem and optimized procedures – now make it possible to implant both hip endoprostheses in one session....
What's next for the planned German Implant Register (IRD)? And what does this mean for the established German Endoprosthesis Register (EPRD)? We spoke with Prof. Dr. Carsten Perka of Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, in his role as scientific director and spokesperson for the EPRD Executive Committee,...
Different countries, different patient populations, and different care philosophies. What does the Australian care reality actually look like with regard to short stems? We took a look at the latest 2024 annual report of the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry (AOANJRR)....
The cement-free A2® short shaft can also score points in the 2024 annual report with a very low probability of failure of 2.7% within seven years. This puts him once again at the forefront of elective cement-free hip primary care....
Old patients present a challenge for arthroplasty in many ways. Now there is a new option with the cemented A2® short stem that could be relevant for older patients....
ARTIQO and SERF SAS in Lyon have an exclusive sales partnership for the A2® short stem since September 2022. Together with Sylvain Rolland, Product Manager Hip at SERF, we take a look at the French hip market and want to know one thing in particular:...
The first MDR product certificates are available for download. More specifically, the “EU certificate for the assessment of the technical documentation” is available for the implants of the A2® short stem system and the 4-motion® knee system....
Speakers Professor Dr Stefan Budde, Bielefeld, and Dr Ahmed Yaseen, Innsbruck, discussed how the A2® short stem system can become a system for all cases with the participants of the ARTIQO workshop at the Endoprosthetics Congress Berlin 2024....
