The last Blog posted in 2015 indicated that I wouldn’t look back; but after its posting, I received this correction form Dr Chris Centeno, arguably, the best informed Regenerative Medicine expert in the North America.
“Mitch,
The discussion of amniotic injections isn’t correct. We found that amniotic tissue hurt stem cells. While we did find a weak growth factor/cytokine effect, it was less than PRP. So extrapolating that data, it would be stem cells>PRP>amniotic. Please correct.
Chris”
I very much appreciate his input as well as invite his ongoing constructive criticism, additions and recommended corrections. Let me add, the PRP he is referring to is not the usual and customary office based 15 minute procedure; but rather a proprietary process developed in the Regenexx laboratories and available from those physician members of the Regenexx network.
Changing my focus, in a review article appearing in the January 2016, volume of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, an article appeared Risk Prediction Tools for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. It is easier for me to quote rather than extrapolate: “After arthroplasty, complications such as infection, venous thromboembolism, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia and many others are associated with poorer patient outcomes and represent a substantial cost burden to the American healthcare system”. The article continues: “Total joint arthroplasty is thus an appropriate target for quality improvement and cost containment via pay-for-performance initiatives.” For someone such as myself, an orthopedic surgeon who devoted a 37 year career after nine years of post graduate education and training performing Total Joint Replacements, I feel that my professional evolution into cellular orthopedics is again validated. In reviewing our data base, following a cellular orthopedic intervention for arthritis, we have not recorded one infection, venous thromboembolism, acute myocardial infarction, case of pneumonia, or any other complication. While 100% of my patients do not experience a successful or satisfactory outcome following the first cellular orthopedic intervention for arthritis, those numbers increase from 75% to 85% with a booster or repeat procedure. Once again, the end result of an unsuccessful Total Joint Replacement is a revision surgery; after a revision, it was not unusual to hear a patient volunteer “give me back my arthritis”. After a less than optimal outcome of a cellular orthopedic intervention, the fallback position is a repeat procedure followed by a patient’s “thank you doctor.”
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