Titanium alloy footprints help disabled cats travel

Vincent - a cat found at a young age and without hind legs, has undergone a transplant to restore normal walking. The volunteer Cindy Jones picked up and brought it to the Lloyd Veterinary Center, where Dr. Mary Sarah Bergh tried to use physiotherapy to help the cat learn to move without using his legs. Realizing that his efforts were almost in vain, she decided to undergo a prosthetic implant surgery - the best solution for the pitiful but equally fortunate cat.

Up to the present time, not many of such surgeries have ever been performed. As a result, Dr. Bergh and her team have little information for the original goal. Finally, they decided to implant a prosthetic made of titanium alloy into the femur of each cat's leg, allowing the skin to form around it. The implants were deployed so that Vincent's bones would grow on the titanium shaft, to support its weight.

Implant the titanium alloy on the leg to help the cat travel.

Due to direct contact with the environment, these titanium alloy shafts can completely cause Vincent to risk infection. Both the cat and those who are trying to help it have to deal with this challenge, with the help of antibiotic sprayers. Each day, the drug must be sprayed twice regularly to ensure that the area of ​​surgery is not infected.

Previously in 2014, the first surgery was done, the second in February this year, with the desire to gradually prolong the prosthesis of Vincent. According to Dr. Bergh, real anesthesia is unnecessary in the following operations. Starting with two short legs and slowly stretching out helps the cat to grow muscles as well as the strength of the bone.

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All surgeries and treatments are performed at Iowa State University, with titanium alloy supplements sponsored by BioMedtrix, a company dedicated to providing animal replacement products. . All costs for the entire transplant process were paid to the owner Vincent, the Jones family. Although it is not yet possible to confirm the effectiveness of false prostheses, Dr. Bergh said that Vincent's case may provide a more practical approach in the future, in similar situations. .