Stanislav Bondarenko<\/a>, acted as the initiator and main organizer of this symposium, which the Institute\u2019s team \u2014 Oleksandr Haluzynskyi, Oleksii Dynnyk, Oleksandr Sitenko, and Vladyslav Viatkin \u2014 had been preparing for more than a year. The symposium became the result of meticulous scientific and organizational work, as well as an example of genuine international cooperation. We sincerely thank SICOT President Prof. Vikas Khanduja and the SICOT Executive Board for their support.<\/p>\nSpecial gratitude is extended to the founders of the osseointegration prosthetic technology \u2014 Prof. Ricard Br\u00e5nemark, Prof. Hendrix van de Meent, and Prof. Oscar van Waes \u2014 for their fruitful cooperation and participation.<\/p>\n
A presentation by the Distinguished Scientist of Ukraine, Professor, DMSc Volodymyr Akymovych Filipenko, devoted to the use of modular stems of hip endoprostheses during revision surgeries, also aroused great interest and sparked a lively discussion.<\/p>\n
For Ukraine, this is not just a scientific event \u2014 it is a new page in the history of national orthopaedics and an important step toward the international recognition of our achievements.<\/p>\n