A new hip to keep him up and going.A YOUNG call centre employee whose prolonged hip pain had forced him to use a walker recently got rid of the trouble minus the huge cost, time and physical alteration such a surgery can cause. For the first time in India, doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences  This article or section reads like a and may need a .Please help [ to improve this article] to make it in tone and meet Wikipedia's . (talk, , ) "AIIMS" redirects here. ( AIIMS AIIMS All-India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System (Australasian Fire Authorities Council) ) replaced Nitin Mishra's damaged hip using a new technique. Nitin, 25, was bed- ridden after he suffered from a condition called osteonecrosis osteonecrosis /os·teo·ne·cro·sis/ (os?te-o-ne-kro´sis) necrosis of a bone. os·te·o·ne·cro·sis n. Necrosis of bone. , in which the ball of the hip bone becomes dead. As the hip joint becomes weak, it collapses and blood circulation to the joint stops, leading to severe problems such as stiffness in the leg and inability to walk. " He had pain in the hip joint for the last one year, which was mild to start with but became acute rapidly and eventually forced him to bed. He undertook a surgery at a local hospital that aggravated ag·gra·vate tr.v. ag·gra·vat·ed, ag·gra·vat·ing, ag·gra·vates 1. To make worse or more troublesome. 2. To rouse to exasperation or anger; provoke. See Synonyms at annoy. the problem," said Dr Rajesh Malhotra, professor of orthopaedics at AIIMS. Malhotra performed the surgery on him at AIIMS recently. Osteonecrosis is common in all age groups and the reasons may vary from alcoholism to excessive intake of steroids, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. doctors. The condition may also appear without any known reasons. " In Nitin's case, the reason is not known. His hip socket had been damaged badly. His hip had become stiff and he was using a walker to walk. It had become difficult for him to attend office and attend to dayto- day chores. He was affected with a severe variety of osteonecrosis characterised by severe collapse of the femoral femoral /fem·o·ral/ (fem´or-al) pertaining to the femur or to the thigh. fem·o·ral adj. Of or relating to the femur or thigh. head and almost a fused hip joint with severe arthritic changes," said Dr Malhotra. A new implant " Birmingham mid- head resection" surgery, also called total hip arthroplasty total hip arthroplasty, n total hip replacement; surgical reconstruction of the hip in which the ball-and-socket joint is replaced with a prosthesis. , was used on him for the first time in India. The patient was operated upon at AIIMS on August 22 and the surgery was wound up in a mere 70 minutes. " The exclusivity of this new surgery is that in contrast to the conventional hip replacement where a large amount of the bone is removed, only damaged surface parts of the hip joint are replaced and a 450 gram ball is fitted inside the joint. Earlier, the head of the bone along with the total bone was removed and a long rod was fitted, which gives a little stiffness to the leg," added Dr Malhotra. neetu. chandra@ mailtoday. in Copyright 2009 India Today This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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