Catalin Prescura, MD

Postgraduate courses:

• 2018: Madrid Foot & Ankle Course: Arthroscopic ankle surgical techniques and minimally invasive foot surgery, under the guidance of Prof. MD Niek van Dijk and Prof. MD Mariano de Prado (FIFA Center Ripoll y De Prado);
• 2017: Clinical Fellowship SPORTHOPAEDICUM, Straubing-Munich, Germany: Surgical techniques in hip arthroscopy, conservative osteoarthritis hip surgery / intertrochanteric osteotomies, periacetabular, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Stefan Fickert;
• 2016: Minimally invasive/anterolateral approach in hip arthroplasty, CMO Center, Munich, Germany, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Robert Hube;
• 2015: Surgical techniques in shoulder arthroplasty with partial, total, and reverse prosthesis (cadaver workshop), Paris; 
• 2016, 2017: Advanced shoulder and knee arthroscopic techniques - Artrolab Munich;
• 2017: “Arthroscopic management of meniscal and chondral lesions pathology” - STI Bucuresti, Thomasz Piontek, Vincenzo Condello;
• 2013: AAOS-SOROT - Shoulder course, William Stetson MD/Guido Marra MD;
• Annual participation in the SRATS congress - Romanian Society of Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology;
• Annual participation in the SOROT congress - Romanian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology. 

Member of medical societies:

• SOROT - Romanian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology;
• SRATS - Romanian Society of Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology;
• AAOS - American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons;
• ESSKA - European Society for Sports traumatology, Knee surgery and Arthroscopy.

Areas of medical interest:

• Sports pathology/traumatology;
• Arthroscopic interventions knee, shoulder, hip, ankle;
• Primary arthroplasty/endoprosthesis and knee/hip revision;
• Bone and joint traumatology: osteosynthesis of fractures, ligament/cartilage reconstructions;
• Conservative surgery of young adults with osteoarthritis of the hip/knee: conservative arthroscopic techniques of the knee/hip, osteotomies of tibia/femur relaxation and ligament/cartilage reconstructions;
• Stem cell regeneration (prolotherapy) techniques / platelet-enriched plasma (PRP) for cartilage/osteoarthritis/chondromalacia, tendonitis, chronic enthesopathy.

Surgery:

• Minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery: knee, hip, shoulder, ankle;
• Arthroplasty and endoprosthesis for advanced osteoarthritis: knee/hip/shoulder;
• Custom knee prostheses ;
• Techniques for revision/replacement of joint prostheses: hip, knee;
• Arthroscopic sports knee trauma :
• Meniscal sutures;
• Complex ligament reconstructions: anterior cruciate ligament (semitendinosus, patellar tendon, quadriceps tendon) by ALL-INSIDE technique, posterior cruciate ligament, posteroexternal corner;
• Reconstructions/suture of the internal collateral ligament by INTERNAL BRACING technique;
• MPFL reconstructions in patella dislocation;
• Complex reconstructions in congenital patella dislocation: MPFL reconstruction, patellar tendon anteromedialization osteotomies;
• Cartilage reconstructions: artificial collagen by AMIC technique, autograft or allograft mosaic;
• Regenerative cartilage therapy with mesenchymal stem cells harvested from bone marrow and jointly injected plasma (PRP).

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