A specialist orthopaedic and trauma hospital in Madrid that cultures and implants patients' own cartilage cells for joint cartilage damage.
Clinica CEMTRO is a specialist orthopaedic, trauma and sports medicine hospital in Madrid, founded by the surgeon Pedro Guillen, whom the site credits with introducing arthroscopy to Spain in 1977. The site describes it as the only FIFA medical excellence centre in Spain and says it carries out around 13,000 operations and handles 60,000 trauma emergencies a year.
The cell therapy relevant to this directory is autologous chondrocyte implantation. According to the hospital's own site, this is delivered through a unit of regenerative joint surgery and cartilage. Chondrocytes are the cells that make and maintain cartilage; in this procedure a sample of the patient's own cartilage is taken, the cells are grown in culture, and they are then implanted into the damaged area. The site says the first implants were performed in 1996 and that 826 had been carried out by mid-2026.
The site describes a technique developed at the clinic in which a high-density cartilage implant is placed using a collagen membrane, intended to increase the number of cells delivered to the injury. The stated aim is to regenerate damaged cartilage rather than replace the joint with a prosthesis. The site also says research is looking at donor chondrocytes, reprogrammed cells and gene editing, which are research directions rather than treatments on offer.
This is conventional, regulated cell therapy for a specific orthopaedic indication rather than a broad regenerative offering, and it is backed by a long publication record from a named academic surgeon. Readers should note that the site does not publish prices and that the pages read give a Madrid telephone number but no street address; a separate note for the directory is that the record's web address, cemtro.com, serves an empty page, while the hospital's live site is clinicacemtro.com.
The hospital names the following; the cell therapy described is specifically for cartilage damage.
The site says it cultures and implants the patient's own cartilage cells, at varying densities, to regenerate damaged joint cartilage rather than replace the joint.
The cartilage and trauma team is named on the hospital's own site.
The site describes a specialist private hospital in Madrid with dedicated units for each joint region, robot-assisted surgical systems including Da Vinci and Mako, paediatric trauma cover and a 24-hour trauma emergency service, together with a laboratory capability for culturing cartilage cells. The pages read give a Madrid telephone number and online appointment booking but do not publish a street address.
The site says nothing about the cost of cartilage cell implantation or of any other treatment on the pages read. No prices are published.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.