Kolkata, March 16 (Agencies): Ushering in the latest in Joint Replacement Surgery, Fortis Hospitals Kolkata today announced Eastern India’s first ‘Custom Fit Knee Replacement Surgery’ performed on a patient with degenerative disease of the knee. Lead orthopedic surgeon Dr. Rakesh Rajput and his team at Fortis Hospitals Kolkata performed this revolutionary surgery by literally remodeling the anatomy of the patient’s knee and recreating or customizing a knee with the right kind of technology and expertise. The new custom fit knee replacement technology designs a perfect instrumentation system that matches the patient’s knee and ensures lesser pain, less tissue damage and faster mobilization.
The name of the patient was Hsieh Wei Tang, a 60-year-old business man running a Chinese restaurant in Kolkata, who was diagnosed with osteoarthritis of right knee after pre-operative evaluation. The custom fit knee replacement surgery was successfully performed on Hsieh Wei.
Dr. Rakesh Rajput, Senior Orthopedic Surgeon, Fortis Hospitals, said, “The operation for knee replacement has been performed for the first time in Eastern India by using the custom fit knee replacement technology. This is indeed a medical breakthrough as this procedure is error free as the planning is done before the operations and likely to revolutionize the way knee replacement surgeries are performed in India. With this technology the outcome bar of knee replacement surgeries had been raised to a much greater level. We are glad to be the first adapters of this technology.”
“We were the first ones to perform Euro-Asia’s Custom Fit knee replacement and now we take pride in performing Eastern India’s first custom fit knee replacement. This testifies our commitment towards combining advanced technology and clinical expertise to offer quality care to our patients added Dr. Lloyd Nazareth, COO, Fortis Hospitals.
It can be mentioned that while conventional knee replacement surgeries retro-fit predetermined sizes of prosthetics on to the patients’ knee, this procedure is very different because it works on the principle that no two patients’ knees are similar. With this technology the patient’s knee is digitally recreated with 3D image mapping after taking into account, the bone structure, weight ratios, gender, age and even mechanical alignment. Based on this 3D model the customized knee is created. Something, that just fits them right. This technology ensures far greater accuracy and reduces the operation time by almost 40 % and also results in less loss of bone & tissues.
The name of the patient was Hsieh Wei Tang, a 60-year-old business man running a Chinese restaurant in Kolkata, who was diagnosed with osteoarthritis of right knee after pre-operative evaluation. The custom fit knee replacement surgery was successfully performed on Hsieh Wei.
Dr. Rakesh Rajput, Senior Orthopedic Surgeon, Fortis Hospitals, said, “The operation for knee replacement has been performed for the first time in Eastern India by using the custom fit knee replacement technology. This is indeed a medical breakthrough as this procedure is error free as the planning is done before the operations and likely to revolutionize the way knee replacement surgeries are performed in India. With this technology the outcome bar of knee replacement surgeries had been raised to a much greater level. We are glad to be the first adapters of this technology.”
“We were the first ones to perform Euro-Asia’s Custom Fit knee replacement and now we take pride in performing Eastern India’s first custom fit knee replacement. This testifies our commitment towards combining advanced technology and clinical expertise to offer quality care to our patients added Dr. Lloyd Nazareth, COO, Fortis Hospitals.
It can be mentioned that while conventional knee replacement surgeries retro-fit predetermined sizes of prosthetics on to the patients’ knee, this procedure is very different because it works on the principle that no two patients’ knees are similar. With this technology the patient’s knee is digitally recreated with 3D image mapping after taking into account, the bone structure, weight ratios, gender, age and even mechanical alignment. Based on this 3D model the customized knee is created. Something, that just fits them right. This technology ensures far greater accuracy and reduces the operation time by almost 40 % and also results in less loss of bone & tissues.
