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Rare revision joint replacement surgery held in Jaipur

Knee Implant: Form a joint with antibiotic & implant bone cement to prevent infection

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The team of doctors along with 67-year-old patient Shanti
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Doctors in a city hospital successfully performed a rare revision joint replacement surgery on an old patient who had gotten the joint replacement done a few month back but developed infection in the implant. 

In this case, doctors formed a joint with antibiotic and implant bone cement to prevent further infection. Shanti, a 67-year-old resident of Jaipur, had undergone two knee implant operations in a city hospital two years ago. After the operation, the patient had resumed her complete daily routine but after 6 months she started to suffer pain in one knee. 

She started to take painkillers and consulted the doctors as well. 

“Investigation revealed that her operated knee developed infection and required a revision surgery of knee implant,” Dr Lalit Modi, joint replacement surgeon at CK Birla Hospital said. 

“An X-ray report of the knee further revealed that due to the spread of infection the implant got loose and more than a couple of fractures too had occurred in the knee bone. In such a case the surgery remained the ultimate option which was rare and we successfully performed it in two stages,” he added.

The doctors, in the first phase of surgery cleaned the joint after removing the old implant and it was replaced by a special artificial implant made by the bone cement and antibiotics. 

“The unique quality of the implant was that the antibiotic, used in it, removes the infection and it allows the patient to move freely,” said Dr Modi. After four months in the second phase of the surgery, when the infection was completely cured by the special antibiotic implant, it was replaced with the special revision implant.

“It was rare and complex surgery to perform as patient’s thigh muscles were in a bad condition due to infection, barring us to perform a revision replacement. But our team took it as a challenge and did it successfully,” Dr Modi said.

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