Istvan Mersich

I take a patient-centred and multidisciplinary approach using evidence-based practices. Involving the patient and family in decision making and collaborating with the team of specialists at the hospital.

Regular trainings in hip and knee surgery.  
Attending national and international orthopaedic meetings in the United Kingdom and overseas: 

– BOA 
– Hungarian National Annual Orthopaedic and – – Trauma Meeting 
– SICOT 
– EFORT 
– AAOS 
– London Hip Meeting 
– London Knee Meeting 
– British Patellofemoral Society Meeting 

Teaching experience: 
In Hungary: 
– Organisation and presentation of departmental seminars and symposia. 
– Take part in organising and presenting on postgraduate specialist trainings for orthopaedic trainees. 
– Hands on training for orthopaedic trainees in operating theatre and outpatient clinics. 
– Postgraduate teaching including SHO training, both in outpatient clinics and in operating theatre. 
– Teaching undergraduate medical and physiotherapy students. 

In United Kingdom: 
– Teaching of medical students and SHOs in outpatient clinics in operating theatre, on X-ray mtgs. 
– Lecture about shoulder surgery for orthopaedic nurses on ENB-219 Post-Registration Orthopaedic Nurse Course 
– Training / Mentoring of scrub nurses / ODP attending First Assistance Course 

Publications: 
1. Michael Thomas, Murtaza Adeeb, Istvan Mersich, Lars Neumann: Kudo 5 total elbow replacement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A 2 centre 2 year to 11 year follow-up study Shoulder and Elbow 2009, 1: pp 43-50 
  
2. Nahum Rosenberg, W Angus Wallace, Lars Neumann, Amit Modi, Istvan Mersich: Improvements in Uncemented Nottingham Total Shoulder Prosthesis Survival with Hydroxyapatite Coating of the Glenoid Base Plate. BMC Muscolosceletal Disorders 2007, 8:76 (IF 1.88) 
  
3. Á Illyés M. Magyar, I. Mersich, Kiss J.: Vállízületi arthroscopos debridementtel szerzett tapasztalataink esetismertetés (Results with Arthroscopic Debridement in the Shoulder – Case Report) 
Magyar Traumatologia Ortpédia Kézsebészet Plasztikai sebészet (Hungarian Journal of 
Trauma, Orthopaedics, Hand and Plastic Surgery) 2002 
  
4. J. Kiss, G. Gulyás, I. Mersich.: Reconstruction of an Elbow Destroyed in Gas Explosion with Total Elbow Replacement: A Case Report European Journal of Plastic Surgery 2001; 24:47-51. IF: 0.193 (in 1999) 
  
5. Mersich I. J., Perlaky Gy, Bense A, Kiss J, Máttyus B, Novotni D.: Helal műtétek hosszútávú 
utánkövetése. (Long-term follow up of Helal’s telescoping metatarsal osteotomy) 
      Magyar Traumatologia Ortpédia Kézsebészet Plasztikai sebészet (Hungarian Journal of 
Trauma, Orthopaedics, Hand and Plastic Surgery) 1998, 5:466-472.é 
  
6. Kiss J, Lakatos J, Mersich I.: Csontőrlemény impactációjával kombinált cementezett protéziscsere, kiterjedt osteolysissel járó protézislazulásnál. (Impaction bone grafting and cemented revision  of the hip in case of loosening with extensive bone loss) 
      Magyar Traumatologia Ortpédia Kézsebészet Plasztikai sebészet (Hungarian Journal of 
Trauma, Orthopaedics, Hand and Plastic Surgery) 1998, 5:398-404. 
  
7. Mersich I. J., Kiss J, Perlaky Gy.: Computertomographia szerepe secunder coxarthrosis esetében a protézisbeültetés tervezésében (The role of CT-scan in the preoperative planning of total hip replacement in case of secondary osteoarthritis of the hip) 
      Magyar Traumatologia Ortpédia Kézsebészet Plasztikai Sebészet  (Hungarian Journal of Trauma, Orthopaedics, Hand and Plastic Surgery) 1998; 3:215-222. 
  
8. Kiss J, Mersich I, Perlaky Gy, Szollás L.: A Putti-Platt mûtét késõi következményei. (Long-term results of Putti-Platt operation) 
      Magyar Traumatologia Ortpédia Kézsebészet Plasztikai Sebészet (Hungarian Journal of Trauma, Orthopaedics, Hand and Plastic Surgery) 1997; 4:181-190. 
  
9. J. Kiss, L. Szollás, I. Mersich, Gy. Perlaky.: Long-term results of Putti-Platt operation with particular reference to arthritis, pain and limitation of external rotation.  
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery 1997; 6:204. 
Also: (abstract) 9^th Congress of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow, Nottingham 1996. 

Research: 
In Hungary:  
  
– Study about the importance of CT scan in the preoperative planning of total hip replacement in case of secondary osteoarthritis of the hip. 
  
– Results and prospects of bone grafting and cemented revision of the hip in case of loosening of prosthesis with extensive bone loss.  
  
– Exploration of long thoracic nerve in case of winging scapula  
  
In United Kingdom: 
  
– The MLS (migration, loosening, screw assessment) system for evaluating the loosening of the glenoid component of the non-cemented total shoulder replacement. 
  
Prizes and awards: [List if applicable] 
3^rd Prize on Annual Meeting for Hungarian Young Trauma Surgeons with the presentation:  
“Surgilig – a new possibility for stabilisation of chronic instability of AC joint” (2002) 
  
Biomet Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship in The Nottingham Shoulder and Elbow Unit (2000) 
  
Salzburg Cornell Seminar Fellowship – Salzburg, Austria (1998) 
  
Zinner Nándor Orthopaedic Award (1998):  
“Intra- and periarticular presentation of osteoid osteoma” 
  
2^nd Prize in Competition of Biophysiscs (1986) 

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