METHOD OF TREATING POSTTRAUMATIC KNEE ARTHRITIS Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61K31/4436 A61K33/40 A61P19/02 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely traumatology and orthopaedics, and is applicable for the purpose of the integrated treatment of posttraumatic knee arthritis. For this purpose, the final stage of the operation involves knee sanation with ozonised physiologic saline in the concentration of 2 mg/l, from the following postoperative day five intra-articular injections of the ozone-oxygen mixture 5 mg/l every second day are prescribed. The ozone therapy is combined with three intra-articular injections 8 mg, once every 4 days.

EFFECT: invention enables higher joint resistance to regional tissue hypoxia, reduced inflammation, prevented developing destructive dystrophic changes and stimulated reparative processes in the involved joint tissues.

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