TOMSK, Mar 1 – RIA Tomsk. Titanium implants with bioactive coatings developed at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) successfully survived at three cats, which earlier have an amputation or limb fractures, the press service of the university reported on Wednesday.
Earlier it was reported that research team of TPU under the leadership of Sergey Tverdokhlebov is engaged in a modification of properties of materials which are used for production of implants. One of developments – is titanic implant with a bioactive covering – is already successfully applied in veterinary science. The first patients who tested on themselves Tomsk innovation became domestic cats Thomas and Kutuzov.
"One of cats had no forepaw, another – have no hindpaw. Their owners addressed to the veterinary clinic" BEST "(Novosibirsk), and the doctors suggested them to try out the method of treatment with the use of implants with our coating. Now both cats are under observation, veterinarians systematically do them X-ray and a tomography which results show that implants have successfully took root", – Tverdokhlebov is quoted in the message.
According to doctors, with artificial "paws" animals feel as comfortably as if it were their own. After Thomas and Kutuzov the red cat with a fracture of two hind extremities became the patient. Implants survived as well as at two previous cats, and now it quite well walking around the clinic on all four legs."Today under needs of veterinarians polytechnicians made for clinic about 40 titanic implants with bioactive coverings. Such coverings made on the basis of phosphates of calcium and other compounds, make implants most similar to the real bone. They are less often torn away by an organism, better survive and accelerate regeneration processes", – is noted in the message.
As earlier federal mass media reported, operation on implantation of titanium prosthesis into Thomas cat bone became unique. It was the first case in Russia and the second in the world (earlier such operation was performed in Great Britain).