Dr Constantinos Kritiotis

Dr Kritiotis is an Orthopaedic Hand, Wrist and Elbow Surgeon. He graduated from the University of Athens in 2005 and completed his Specialty Training in the Cypriot Orthopaedic Rotation, prior to moving to the UK for a fellowship in Hand Surgery in Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. Subsequently he worked in various posts around the UK (Cornwall, Manchester, Sunderland) as a Consultant Hand Surgeon prior to moving permanently to Cyprus in the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

Among the highlights of his career are:

1. He obtained the prestigious European Diploma in Hand Surgery in 2014 and to this date, he is the only surgeon practising in Cyprus that holds this qualification

2. He was among the first surgeons worldwide to introduce Wide Awake Local Anaesthesia Hand Surgery (WALANT) under the direct mentoring of Don Lalonde from Canada. This allowed him to operate on most hand surgery conditions under local anaesthetic, thus lessening hospital stays and resources required for surgery. He has a publication on this as an invited author in the prestigious Hand Clinics Journal (Kritiotis C, Phillips A, Muir L, Naqui Z. Practice in Wide-Awake Hand Surgery: Differences Between United Kingdom and Cyprus. Hand Clin. 2019 Feb;35(1):43-50. doi: 10.1016/j.hcl.2018.08.007. PMID: 30470330.)

3. He collaborated with Professor Jan Friden to introduce hand surgery for tetraplegic patients in Cyprus, thus allowing these patients to regain functions lost after their injury. Since 2016, twelve patients have benefited from this collaboration which resulted in an improvement in their quality of life.

4. He introduced the Aptis DRUJ prosthesis to Cyprus, following a direct approach to the designer of the prosthesis, Dr Luis Scheker. Through his personal efforts, the prosthesis was first imported to Cyprus and subsequently it was introduced in the GESY. To this day, the prosthesis was implanted on 11 patients. Of note, this prosthesis is not available in other countries in the Eastern Europe or the Eastern Mediterranean (including Israel).

Dr Kritiotis practice is solely focused on hand, wrist and elbow diseases and injuries. His specialist interests are:

1. Any kind of arthritis of the hand, wrist and elbow (arthritis of the base of the thumb, rheumatoid arthritis, finger arthritis, etc)

2. Injuries (fractures or soft tissue) of the fingers, hand, wrist and elbow (fractures, dislocations, malunions of fractures resulting in loss of function, non unions of scaphoid and long bones of the upper limb)

3. Peripheral nerve surgery of the upper limb (carpal tunnel decompression, nerve injuries, late nerve reconstruction, nerve transfers)

4. Reconstructive surgery for suitable tetraplegic patients

5. Spasticity reduction surgery in patients with spasticity following brain injury (traumatic brain injury, stroke, cerebral palsy)

6. Soft tissue reconstruction of the upper limb following trauma, tumors etc (free and local flaps)

7. Arthroscopy of the wrist for ligamentous injuries (TFCC injuries, scapholunate ligament injuries, synovitis of the wrist, arthritis of the wrist)

8. Tendon injuries, tendon ruptures and various common conditions (DeQuervain tenosynovitis, trigger finger, cut tendons, broken tendons of the hand, wrist and elbow).

Dr Kritiotis is seeing patients in Iasis Private Hospital in Paphos and the Scandinavian Medical Centre in Limassol. His surgeries take place in the fully equipped hand surgery unit that he set up in Iasis Private Hospital.