In this interview, Dr. med. Stefan Preiss tells us about his fascination with knee surgery, the importance of trust and why Schulthess Klinik means so much to him personally as well as professionally.

The Wilhelm Schulthess Foundation’s Patient Assistance Fund allowed young Eduardo from the Dominican Republic to undergo surgery at Schulthess Klinik. 

The knee surgery field has a reason to celebrate – Schulthess Klinik has successfully performed the 500th knee operation using ROSA robot technology. 

The data from the Swiss National Joint Registry SIRIS is clear: Schulthess Klinik’s high degree of specialisation and extensive experience has a direct beneficial impact on patient outcomes. Within two years after a hip or knee replacement operation, significantly fewer Schulthess Klinik patients require revision surgery than is the average in clinics across Switzerland. With hip replacements, Schulthess Klinik’s rate is 1%, whilst for knee replacements the figure is 1.1%. This is over two and a half and three times lower than the Swiss average respectively.

The ETH Zurich study led by first author Dr. Barbara Postolka has won the ISB Clinical Biomechanics Award. Schulthess Klinik was also involved in the award-winning study through our research associate, Dr. sc. ETH Renate List as well as our Human Performance Lab. Congratulations to everyone involved!

A newly developed cartilage repair procedure has shown promising results in terms of repairing damage to knee cartilage. Cartilage chip implantation involves mechanically crushing the patient’s own cartilage tissue into “chips”. These are mixed with the patient’s own blood, which has been prepared beforehand, and then reused.