Orthopaedic Surgery
Outline
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery provides comprehensive care for a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders, including conditions such as spine and spinal cord disorders, joint diseases, traumatic injuries, peripheral nerve diseases, and surgical ailments affecting the hands and feet. Each year, the department performs approximately 1,000 surgeries.
Professor Emeritus KAWAHARA Norio and Associate Professor KAWAGUCHI Masahito specialize in spine and spinal cord conditions and have performed numerous surgeries for complex cases such as scoliosis and spinal cancer. Professor KANEUJI Ayumi, Professor ICHISEKI Toru, and Senior Assistant Professor TAKAHASHI Eiji specialize in hip joint disorders and have considerable experience in performing hip replacements, revision surgeries, and hip osteotomies for patients from both within and outside the Hokuriku area. Professor ICHISEKI also oversees treatments for shoulder joint disorders, and performs reverse shoulder joint prostheses as well as arthroscopic surgery. Senior Assistant Professor TACHI Yoshiyuki established an outpatient clinic for knee joint regenerative medicine (MFAT: Micro-Fragmented Adipose Tissue). Here, he performs regenerative medicine using autologous adipose-derived stem cells to treat knee osteoarthritis.
The department’s research endeavors focus on reconstruction of the spine, basic studies on osteonecrosis of the femoral head and artificial hip joints at the graduate school, and regeneration of bone, cartilage, and the spinal cord at the Regenerative Medicine Center.
e-mail: orthoped@kanazawa-med.ac.jp
Faculty
Professor and Chair
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Professor
Associate Professor
Senior Assistant Professor
Senior Assistant Professor
Senior Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
ONOCHI Yuuki
Assistant Professor
SANJI Yusuke
Assistant Professor
MORIMOTO Kenichi
Assistant Professor
UCHIUMI Tomoki
Assistant Professor
NAKADE Yujiro
Assistant Professor
MURAKAMI Munetoshi
Research Achievements
Ayumi Kaneuji, Hiroshi Imai, Ryo Sugama, Yoichi Ohta, Kiyokazu Fukui, Eiji Takahashi, Haruhiko Akiyama, Takaki Miyagawa, Junya Yoshitani, Hideki Fujii, Ayano Amagami, Minoru Watanabe, Takayuki Honda, Akihiko Maeda, Yoshihiro Nakamura,
Naofumi Taniguchi, Jiro Ichikawa, David W. Fawley, Junko Yasuda.
Implant fixation of primary total hip arthroplasty using a cementless cup for osteoarthritis secondary to developmental dysplasia of the hip: A prospective multicenter study in Japan.
Journal of Joint Surgery and Research. 2:19-24, 2024
Ayumi Kaneuji, Makoto Fukui, Eiji Takahashi, Yusuke Sanji, Hiroaki Hirata, Norio Kawahara.
Hip-sacroiliac joint-spine syndrome in total hip arthroplasty patients
Scientific Reports. 14(1):3813, 2024
Shusuke Ueda, Toru Ichiseki, Miyako Shimasaki, Daisuke Soma, Masaru Sakurai,Ayumi Kaneuji, Norio Kawahara.
Effect of high-dose vitamin C on tendon cell degeneration —An In vitro study.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(24):13358, 2024
Toru Ichiseki, Miyako Shimasaki, Shusuke Ueda, Hiroaki Hirata, Daisuke Souma, Norio Kawahara and Yoshimichi Ueda.
Efficacy of rectal systemic administration of mesenchymal stem cells to injury sites via the CXCL12/CXCR4 axis to promote regeneration in a rabbit skeletal muscle injury model.
Cells. 12(13):1729, 2023
Eiji Takahashi, Mingliang Chen, Ayumi Kaneuji, Daisuke Soma, Makoto Fukui, Norio Kawahara.
Comparative study of highly cross-linked polyethylene liner wear by hip center location using elevated hip center technique in Crowe I to III hip dysplasia: outcomes for a minimum of eighteen years of follow-up.
J Arthroplasty. 38:2655-2660, 2023
External Research Funding
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 2025-2027
Title：Development of a novel method to prevent steroid-induced osteonecrosis: Analysis and application of factors involved in endogenous stem cell function
Principal Investigator ：ICHISEKI Toru
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(Young research)2025-2027
Title：Development of next-generation cell therapy using synovial fluid switches
Principal Investigator ：FUKU Atsushi
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(Young research)2024-2026
Title：Development of a new cell therapy for knee osteoarthritis using anti-senescence ADSCs
Principal Investigator：KITAJIMA Hironori
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 2022-2025
Title：Establishment of highly safe fluorine-treated antibacterial implants for the prevention of postoperative infections
Principal Investigator ：FUJII Masafumi
Research Grant for Intractable Diseases from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan 2024-2025
Title: A large-scale, multicenter study to improve the diagnosis and severity assessment of idiopathic femoral head necrosis
Co-Investigator : KANEUJI Ayumi