Background
Orthopaedic surgeon and the originator of the Salamehfix / SLDF hinged arc external fixator, a three-arc external frame designed to lengthen a limb and correct an axial deviation in the same distraction. He qualified in medicine at the First Medical Institute in Saint Petersburg (1983), completed a general surgery and traumatology residency, and then a doctoral fellowship in external fixation for deformity, pseudarthrosis and lengthening at CITO in Moscow (1987–1991) — the Soviet institute at the centre of the external-fixation tradition Ilizarov came from. He developed his own system in Syria and has operated with it since 2000; his centre is registered in Tartous, and since the war he has also worked in Frankfurt am Main with Dr. Michael Schmidt of the OUZ Orthopädisches Zentrum, his co-author. In 2025 he published the first full account of the system in International Orthopaedics: 1,103 lower-limb reconstructions performed between 2000 and 2024, of which 640 combined lengthening with deformity correction and 193 were stature lengthening. He chaired a session at the 16th European SICOT Trainees' Meeting in 2009 and is an active member of SICOT, ASAMI International and EPOS.
Peer-reviewed research
- External hinge fixation system for leg lengthening and correction of axial deviations (Salamehfix 1): configuration and clinical advantages — International Orthopaedics, 2025
Methods practised
Procedures performed
- ●Salamehfix / SLDF hinged arc external fixation
- ●Simultaneous lengthening and axial deformity correction
- ●Stature (cosmetic) lengthening
- ●Post-traumatic and congenital deformity reconstruction
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