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On April 16 this year, a team of doctors of the Hospital of Reconstructive Surgery, headed by surgeon Romek Märtsin, had an operation aimed to give a 18-year-old girl Anett Torri back the ability to move her left hand and use her fingers that had become immobile due to scar tissue after she suffered a severe fire accident when she was 6 years old. She can now, nearly six months after the first operation, freely move the hand that was restricted earlier by a severe scar tissue on her arm, stretch her fingers that were crooked and wrist that was tilted before.

The doctors took fat tissue from the patient, which was then processed in a Cytor machine, which separated cell stems from it which were injected to the patient's hand. The first operation was followed later by a second when fat tissue was added to the hand, which all restored the tissue lost in the fire and softened the scars that restricted the movement of the hand.

Dr Romek Märtsin and Dr Andrus Loog, from the Hospital of Reconstructive Surgery, will present the results of the first surgery in Estonia with use of autologic stem cells on Friday, in Pärnu at a symposium "Cell Stem Treatment – Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine."