“At the end of 2023, at Athens BJR we are taking pride to have been able to provide a safe and efficient care to our patients from all over the world who traveled to Athens for surgery and consultations in the last year. These patients have now become our best “ambassadors” sharing and spreading their positive […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr Dimitrios Giotikas was invited to give a lecture at a round table at the 79th Annual congress of Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (HAOST), which took place in Athens, Greece from the 4th to 7th October 2023. The topics and speakers of the round table were: […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr Dimitrios Giotikas was invited to give a lecture at the World Orthopaedic Conference 2023, which took place in London, UK from the 24th to 26th August 2023. The topic of the lecture was about our clinical experience with the use of imtramedullary nails for stature increase treatments. An […]
We are pleased to announce that the abstract of the research on the biocompatibility of Stryde, that Dr Giotikas presented at the Annual Meeting of British Limb Reconstruction Society (BLRS) in March 2022 in Brighton UK, has now been published in Bone& Joint Orthopaedic Proceedings Journal. Concluding his talk, Dr Giotikas said: “… In my […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr Dimitrios Giotikas has been invited at the Annual Meeting of British Limb Reconstruction Society (BLRS) to present the results of his research study: “BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF PRECISE STRYDE® LENGTHENING NAIL: A RADIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL ANALYSIS” . The congress will take place on 24-25 March 2022 at Brighton, United Kingdom. […]
Dr Giotikas and Athens Bone & Joint Reconstruction Centre are pleased to announce that femoral lengthening with G-Nail (Designed by Dr Jean Marc Guichet and Manufactured by X-os Ltd in Switzerland, EU) is introduced for clinical use to our practice in August 2021. Following the anticipated prolonged unavailability of Stryde nail and the uncertainty about […]
On the 5th April 2021, Nuvasive Specialized Orthopaedics (NSO), the manufacturer of Stryde and Precise implants, announced that the CE certification for all variations of the MAGEC and Precice device systems has been temporarily suspended. This means that the sale of these products (including Precise-2 nail) are on hold in the European Union. In addition, […]
Following the recent, temporary, global recall of all Precise/Stryde family products by the manufacturer, We announce: All surgeries with Stryde nail, scheduled for anytime sooner than 18th August 2021, are postponed until further notice. Precise-2 nail is expected to be available for clinical use again in our Centre in the second half of March […]
Nuvasive distributor has informed us that STRYDE nail has been officially granted the CE Mark and is now commercially available and approved for clinical use in the European Union. Dr Giotikas commented: “I am very excited with this development. All of us who are interested in cosmetic limb lengthening, patients and physicians alike, should be grateful to the […]
“Wishing you a joyful Holiday Season, a very Merry Christmas, and a prosperous New Year.” “At the end of 2018, at Athens BJR we are taking pride to have been able to be providing safe, high-quality care through the year to our patients who traveled to Athens from all over the world for surgery and consultations. These patients […]