Changing the standard clinical approach towards the principles of personalized and integrative medicine.

Prof. Dalibor Krpan, MD, PhD
IMSF is a recently established society with the goal of promoting the new concept in the prevention and treatment of skeleton diseases, based on the principles of personalized and integrated medicine, in order to approach the skeleton as a complex organ which functions as a whole.
Why Do We Need a New Concept in Treatment of Chronic Skeleton Diseases?
One of the worst possible fates that can befall a person is to be mentally fit and with a great desire for life, but powerless and dependent on others. This is exactly what the effects of untreated osteoporosis lead to.
What is important to know about osteoporosis?
Why is there such a need for the new concept of Personalized Medicine in Helathcare Systems?
Because people are genetically different, they react differently to risk factors, diseases and to treatment. Therefore, in the case of chronic diseases, it is especially necessary to treat the patient and not a disease. This is also the best way to avoid unnecessary diagnostic tests and adverse effects of the long-term treatments needed in the case of chronic diseases.
Because people are genetically different, they react differently to risk factors, diseases and to treatment. Therefore, in the case of chronic diseases, it is especially necessary to treat the patient and not a disease. This is also the best way to avoid unnecessary diagnostic tests and adverse effects of the long-term treatments needed in the case of chronic diseases.
What is the goal of Personalized medical care?
Putting the patient in the center of focus, not the disease. Examinations and treatments are planned according to the needs of each individual, providing a complete and integrated health care with the aim to treat and prevent chronic diseases.
Putting the patient in the center of focus, not the disease. Examinations and treatments are planned according to the needs of each individual, providing a complete and integrated health care with the aim to treat and prevent chronic diseases.
What about timely prevention?
The human body is too complex and it is quite clear that the vast majority of health problems cannot be solved by organ replacement or conventional drug use. That is why there is an expanding trend in prevention and regenerative medicine. In fact, the disease is only the last phase of tissue and organ damage that began long before the onset of disease symptoms. It is therefore necessary to protect the tissue during the first signs of damage and as soon as possible regenerate the damaged organ.
The human body is too complex and it is quite clear that the vast majority of health problems cannot be solved by organ replacement or conventional drug use. That is why there is an expanding trend in prevention and regenerative medicine. In fact, the disease is only the last phase of tissue and organ damage that began long before the onset of disease symptoms. It is therefore necessary to protect the tissue during the first signs of damage and as soon as possible regenerate the damaged organ.
Current Trends?
Personalized medicine is finding its place in most medical subspecialties, ophthalmology alike. Example of such personalized approach is treatment of severe corneal burns with consequent epithelial stem cell deficiency and vision loss. In such cases, only stem cells from autologous source are able to restore vision; thus, the treatment must be done in personalized manner. (Dekaris, Tominac-Trcin, Gabrić, Mijović, Pašalić; 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
Personalized medicine is finding its place in most medical subspecialties, ophthalmology alike. Example of such personalized approach is treatment of severe corneal burns with consequent epithelial stem cell deficiency and vision loss. In such cases, only stem cells from autologous source are able to restore vision; thus, the treatment must be done in personalized manner. (Dekaris, Tominac-Trcin, Gabrić, Mijović, Pašalić; 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG)