12-hour surgery saves young man’s hip at Thrissur Govt. Medical College in Kerala
Complex vascularised bone graft procedure performed to preserve hip joint and delay or avoid replacement surgery
In a remarkable display of medical expertise, doctors at the Government Medical College Hospital in Thrissur, Kerala, successfully completed a 12-hour surgery to treat avascular necrosis of the hip in a 28-year-old man. The complex procedure, which involved two specialized techniques, was performed while preserving the patient's hip joint.
The patient, a native of Mannuthy, had avascular necrosis in both hips, with the condition at stage III in the right hip and stage II in the left. The surgery, which required expertise from the Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics, and Anaesthesiology departments, utilized core decompression and a free vascularised fibula graft to restore blood supply to the affected area.
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