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Double Hip Prosthesis: 98-Year-Old Man Gets Back on His Feet a Few Hours After Surgery

Surgeon Giuseppe Mazziotta replaced, in one operation, the two worn joints of a 98-year-old man at the Istituto Clinico Catanese, near Catania, Sicily, on 5 August 2026 reported the AGI agency. The patient, a resident of Randazzo named Giuseppe, was no longer walking because of severe osteoarthritis on both sides of the pelvis, and it was he who demanded that he be operated on both at once. This dual simultaneous hip prosthesis, very rarely desc…
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Surgeon Giuseppe Mazziotta replaced, in one operation, the two worn joints of a 98-year-old man at the Istituto Clinico Catanese, near Catania, Sicily, on 5 August 2026 reported the AGI agency. The patient, a resident of Randazzo named Giuseppe, was no longer walking because of severe osteoarthritis on both sides of the pelvis, and it was he who demanded that he be operated on both at once. This dual simultaneous hip prosthesis, very rarely desc…

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Sunday, August 23, 2026.
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