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Amarnath gets award for his work

— Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

FRONTIER AREA: Orthopedician Surat Amarnath explaining his work in Guntur on Monday.

GUNTUR: Using a patient’s own stem cells for treatment is the answer for several medical problems, opines Guntur-based Orthopedician Surat Amarnath and his ‘poster presentation’ on work done at his clinic here has won him the prestigious Dr. T. Durga Prasad Memorial Best Poster Award from among 20 competitors from several reputed private hospitals and Government hospitals. Presenting his work on utilising stem cells in bone and cartilage regeneration during the Orthopedic Surgeons’ State Conference at Visakhapatnam recently, he had explained the methodology in separating the stem cells from bone marrow and injecting them to the area where bone or cartilage had to be regenerated and this won him the award.

In six to seven cases in his Amaravathi Institute of Medical Sciences, he had successfully used the method of concentration of stem cells in a special laboratory equipped with a centrifuge.

Two weeks after the scaffolding formed at the area of fracture of cartilage damage, he injected the separated stem cells from the patients’ body, which accelerated the healing process and avoided complications.

Giving one example each in multiple bone fracture and cartilage degeneration cases, he showed a Power Point presentation to explain the entire process with photographs at every stage.

Stem cells had the quality of generating bone, cartilage or nerve cell on the scaffolding generated at that particular place taking help of the bio-chemicals released locally.

Documentation was the biggest asset of the hospital that digitally stores more than 30,000 photographs of all the cases annually. With the help of blood smears and microscopic tests, concentration of stem cells was determined and with the help of X-Rays the regeneration progress was determined.

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