Monroeville, Pa.-based Forbes Hospital and Jefferson Hills, Pa.-based Jefferson Hospital surgeons are now leveraging the MAKO Robotic-Arm Interactive Orthopaedic System to perform hip and knee surgeries.
Here are six things to know:
1. The two hospitals join other Allegheny Health Network hospitals — Pittsburgh-based Allegheny General, Pittsburgh-based West Penn and Erie, Pa.-based Saint Vincent — in offering this technology.
2. The MAKOplasty system helps surgeons perform minimally invasive surgeries, providing a CT scan of a patient's joint for a 3-D map of the surgery.
3. MAKOplasty is designed to treat early-or mid-stage osteoarthritis that has not touched all three knee compartments.
4. MAKOplasty also assists the surgeon with implant size and positioning for biomechanical alignment in hip replacement surgery.
5. Brian F. Moore, MD, and Brian A. Mosier, MD, began using the MAKOplasty system to perform orthopedic surgeries at Forbes Hospital in February.
6. David Stapor, MD, and Zachary Sisko, MD, started performing total hip and partial knee surgeries with MAKOplasty in late 2016 at Jefferson Hospital.
Editors note: This article was updated on April 5.