Konstantinos Starantzis ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON

• The use of autologous blood factors in the ACL reconstruction surgery

• GMC FULL Registration No 6061215
• BASS full membership (British Association of Spine Surgeons)
• British Scoliosis Society (Full membership)
• BMA full membership
• MDU
• Hellenic College of Orthopaedic Surgeon (full-after examinations)
• Hellenic Association of Spine Surgeons (full)
• Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (full)
• Medical Association of Athens (full)

AD-HOC REVIEWER for peer-reviewed international journals:

• CORR – Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (since 2010)
• Injury
• Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
• MOJ group

Current Appointment: 

• Attending Physician, Hygeia Hospital, since January 2018
• Consultant Spinal Surgeon, University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Newcastle Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 6QG (since July 2014)

Previous Appointments:

• Locum Consultant Spinal Surgeon, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, City General Hospital, Newcastle Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 6QG  May 2014-Jul 2014
• Senior Clinical Fellow in Spinal Surgery, North Bristol Hospitals NHS ,Frenchay Hospital, Frenchay Park Road, Bristol, BS16 1LE Nov2013-May 2014         
• Spinal Fellow QMC Nottingham University Hospitals NHS, Nottingham, Feb 2013-Nov2013
• Spinal Associate Attikon University Hospital of Athens, Greece February 2012-January 2013
• Resident in Orthopaedics Attikon University Hospital of Athens, Greece February 2007- February 2012
• Military Service Doctor May 2006- January 2007
• TRUST GRADE DOCTOR in Trauma and Orthopaedics, GUY’S & ST’ THOMAS’ NHS Foundation Trust, ST THOMAS’ HOSPITAL,LONDON, February 2005 – April  2006
• Senior House Officer in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough, August 2004-February 2005
• Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge, 04/02/2004 – 03/08/2004
• Resident in General Surgery, 2nd General Surgery Department, Asclepieon Voula’s General Hospital, ATHENS 5/12/2002- 4/9/2003
• Rural Service, Health Center of Tirnavos, Larissa, Affiliated to the General Hospital of Larissa, Greece, 16/8/2001- 15/11/2002

Clinical Interest:

• Includes anterior, posterior, and lateral approaches from the cervical to the lumbar spine to address deformities, tumours, and degenerative and traumatic conditions of the spine.

Research Interest: 

• Reviewer for journals, such as CORR and JNS Spine

• Turin 2015 Italy 8th EFOST Congress on Sports Traumatology SIGASCOT AWARD  Best Podium Presentation

• The Potentially Positive Role of PRPs in Preventing Femoral Tunnel Widening in ACL Reconstruction Surgery Using Hamstrings: A Clinical Study in 51 Patients A. Starantzis et al Journal of Sports Medicine Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 789317, 10 pages
• Rib hump deformity assessment using the rib index in adolescent idiopathic scoliotics treated with full screw or hybrid constructs: aetiological implications. Soultanis KC, Stavropoulos NA, Grivas TB, Tsiavos K, Starantzis K, Papagelopoulos PJ. Scoliosis. 2015 Feb 11;10(Suppl 2):S10. doi: 10.1186/1748-7161-10-S2-S10. eCollection 2015.
• Is once failed back surgery, always failed back surgery? A relative success of surgical intervention in a patient with failed back surgery on Intrathecal Morphine Pump K.A.Starantzis, M.Shafafy MOJ Orthopedics & Rheumatology Nov 2014
• Technical note: A new type of reconstruction of the hemi-pelvis after Type 3 amputative sacrectomy using pedicled fibula. K.A. Starantzis, V.Sakellariou, P.Rose, M. Yaszemski, P.Papagelopoulos J Neurosurg Spine. 2014 Aug;21(2):195-202.
• Open reduction and posterior instrumentation of type III high transverse sacral fracture-dislocation. A technical note. K.A. Starantzis, B. Mirzashahi, E. Behrbalk , M. Sadat, M.Shafafy J Neurosurg Spine. 2014 Aug;21(2):286-91.
• Late diagnosis of perforation of the aorta by a pedicle screw. Soultanis KC, Sakellariou VI, Starantzis KA, Papagelopoulos PJ. Acta Orthop Belg. 2013 Aug;79(4):361-7.
• When and how to operate on thoracic and lumbar spine fractures? Soultanis KC, Mavrogenis AF, Starantzis KA, Markopoulos C, Stavropoulos NA, Mimidis G, Kokkalis ZT, Papagelopoulos PJ. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2013 Oct 25.
• Insidious Onset of Tetraparesis due to Cervical Epidural Abscess from Enterococcus faecalis. Soultanis KC, Sakellariou VI, Starantzis KA, Stavropoulos NA, Papagelopoulos PJ. Case Rep Med. 2013;2013:513920. doi: 10.1155/2013/513920. Epub 2013 Mar 20.
• Outcome of a dynamic neutralization system for the spine. Sapkas G, Mavrogenis AF, Starantzis KA, Soultanis K, Kokkalis ZT, Papagelopoulos PJ. Orthopedics. 2012 Oct 1;35(10):e1497-502. doi: 10.3928/01477447-20120919-19.
• Discordance in spinal and thoracic correction using powerful full screw constructs in idiopathic scoliotic. Soultanis K, Grivas TB, Starantzis KA, Stavropoulos NA, Markopoulos C, Papagelopoulos P. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;176:232-7.