Webinar
Indications and Contraindications to Patient-Specific Acetabular Implants
About this webinar
In this webinar, Prof. Dr. med. Burkhard W. Wippermann shares his experience assessing patient suitability for personalized aMace implants, along with the type of complications he experienced after operating on more than ten patients using aMace implants. This valuable session, illustrated with case studies from Dr. Wippermann's practice, includes a clear list of indications and contraindications to assess patients with.
What you will learn
- The context, indications, pre-op and post-op scans, and results from case studies
- A clear list of indications and contraindications when to use or not to use the patient-specific aMace implant in the experience at Helios
- What type of complications Prof. Wippermann experienced after operating on more than ten patients with the aMace implant
- The results of a post-op analysis
- Why Prof. Wippermann believes a slight malposition doesn’t have to have clinical consequences
- Why Prof. Wippermann used the aMace implant on a case that didn’t have a 3D defect
- Why most revisions are done from a posterior approach
Speakers
Prof. Dr. med. Burkhard W. Wippermann
Prof. Dr. med. Burkhard W. Wippermann
Chief Physician, Helios Hospital Hildesheim, Germany
Prof. Dr. med. Wippermann studied medicine at the University of Marburg, at Hanover Medical School and at the Mayo Clinic. He received his medical license in 1982 and his specialist certification in surgery in 1992. He is an attending physician at the Clinic for Trauma Surgery in Hannover and became the Head of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery at the HELIOS Hospital Hildesheim in Germany in 2001. He has been a member of several specialist societies since 1986. He specializes in: endoprostheses and joint surgery, correction of malunions and malpositioning of the limbs, and musculoskeletal tumor surgery
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