The Clinica San Francesco reaches 1000 robotic hip replacements

The Clinica San Francesco consolidates its primacy in the field of robotic surgery.

In October 2020 MD Piergiuseppe Perazzini, Director of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Functional Unit, and his staff reached the number of 1000 hip replacements carried out with robotic procedure. Dr Perazzini is the European pioneer of this procedure, having introduced it first in Europe (and second one worldwide after USA) in December 2012, and currently in Italy he has got the highest number of hip replacement operations (further the knee ones) with the Mako robot. Dr Perazzini had learned and acquired the innovative method at the Robotic Surgery Center of Mako firm in Fort Lauderdale, and at the orthopaedic clinic – directed by MD Jon Dounchis, in Naples, both in Florida (USA).

The procedure minimizes the error margin in the prosthesis placement, main cause of instability and dislocations with frequent need of re-operation. This allows to achieve a high surgery precision, permitting a correct biomechanical working of implant. The expertise and long experience of Dr Perazzini made him the top expert of the field to which the Italian and European colleagues address to learn in detail the robotic procedure through technical laboratories, live surgery and lectures.

This allowed the Clinic to become in 2013 CORE (European Robotic Orthopaedic Centre) and in 2019 was recognized by the Veneto Region as reference facility for the robotic orthopaedic surgery.