Rare Modular Knee Replacement Surgery Performed at Medway Medical Centre

 

 

 

Chennai, October 14, 2013 : A rarest Modular Knee Replacement Surgery for a 26 year old youth was performed by a team of Orthopeadic Surgeons at Medway Medial Centre, Kodambakkam, Chennai.

Vijayan of Katpadi was presently working in Delhi and he was suffering from acute pain in his left knee. When he approached doctors at Delhi, he was diagonised for a tumour in his knee and was adviced to undergo a surgery for removing the tumour. He under went the surgery at the same hospital least did he knew at that time his nightmare would continue in spite of removing the tumour completely.

His family singed a sign of relief when it was found that the tumour was not cancer but soon the moment of bliss was over when he realised the surgeons, in the process of removing the tumour had stiffened his knee. This was a shock to him, as this was not explained before surgery.

He could not manage to do any of his day routines with a stiff leg. Getting in and out of car was practically impossible with a straight leg. He had to depend on his family members for simple things like wearing his trousers. He felt his life cannot go on any longer like this and was even mentally prepared to lose his limb when at this point had an appointment with Dr Arunkumar, chief Orthopaedic surgeon at Medway medical centre Kodambakkam.

Dr Arunkumar having worked in UK for over 14 yrs has vast experience in complex joint replacement surgery and key hole surgery, quickly realised that Vijayan’s problem is complex and would be a great challenge to reconstruct his knee as he had lost half of his top part of the leg bone due to the tumour during his previous surgery and also his knee cap has been sacrificed by the previous surgeons. His muscles and ligaments would be non functioning and weak, hence forth will need special prosthesis to reconstruct his knee allowing him to bend his knee as well as able to walk as normal as possible.

The procedure needed a team of surgeons hence he soughed the help of Mr Biggi a senior orthopaedic surgeon and professor at Geneva University for advise. Under standing the complexity of the problem Mr Biggi was happy to offer a hand during the procedure.

A team experienced surgeons headed by Dr Arunkumar joined hands with Mr Biggi to perform a Hinged type Total knee replacement. Considering his age and activity level this high-end prosthesis is needed to get vijayan back to his work in three months period.