Parvathy Hospital conducted a unique complicated multiple surgical treatment to a 20-year-old female patient
- Conducted a Unique Complicated Multiple Surgical Procedures treating crushed arm to an accident met young girl, restoring her arm movement and successfully avoided Upper Limb Amputation
- Patient sustained extensive crush injury with radial nerve injury with loss of upper limb movements.
Chennai, 28th August
2019: Parvathy Hospital, Chennai today announced that
they had successfully conducted a unique complicated multiple surgical
treatment to a 20-year-old female patient who sustained serious crush injury in
her right arm with wrist drop due to Radial nerve injury, following a road
traffic accident. A team of Orthopedic surgeons, Plastic surgeons headed by Dr.
Dharmarajan, Director of Orthopedic Surgery, Dr. Mithun, Sr.
Orthopaedic surgeon, and Dr. Arul, Sr. Plastic surgeon Parvathy
Hospital, Chennai performed challenging procedures which enabled the patient to
regain her hand mobility and successfully by avoiding upper limb amputation.
The young female patient, Ms. Ponniyammal, a resident of Kancheepuram, had earlier met
with a road accident sustained serious crush injury. She also suffered a nerve
cut and was unable to move her hand and lost her sensation. A team of
orthopaedic doctors, Plastic surgeons examined the patient and found her right
upper limb sustained crush injury and radial nerve injury. A comminuted
compound fracture of right proximal humerus with wrist drop was also diagnosed
and series of surgical procedures done.
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(L to R) Dr. Dharmarajan, Director of Orthopedic Surgery, Parvathy Hospital; Dr. Mithun, Sr. Orthopaedic surgeon, Parvathy
Hospital; Patient Ms. Ponniyammal; Dr. Arul, Sr. Plastic surgeon
Parvathy Hospital
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Elaborating the procedures, Dr. Mithun, Sr. Orthopaedic Surgeon,
Parvathy Hospital said, “The patient was observed with a complete right arm
crush and had loss of movement as well as sensation. Initially temporary
stabilization of fracture done with external fixator and series of wound
debridement procedures were performed by plastic surgeons’ team for removal of
necrotic tissue and to promote wound healing, stage by stage in her right arm.
Such debridement procedures were necessary to remove the dead material in her
arm. Later SSG, the split skin grafting procedure was performed to cover deep
structures, restore dynamic function of the arm and to prevent joint
contractures”.
Further Dr Mithun said, “After a month of observation, an Open
reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) and bone grafting was performed to reconstruct
the broken bones to bring them back to the normal position. This is an
extremely complex situation in which we had successfully operated to heal
properly and to regain normal function of her upper limb.
Dr. Dharmarajan, Director of Orthopedic Surgeon, Parvathy Hospital
said, “The treatment procedures were safe, rapid and
very cost effective. It was a challenging task to reconstruct and to regain the
mobility inspite of severe crush injury with nerve injury. We finally saved her
crushed arm, the comminuted fractures healed well with reasonable functions in
her upper limb. With these procedures, we avoided any kind of upper limb
amputation thereby saving girl’s future”
Speaking on her recovery, the patient said, “In spite of severe crush
injury (for which amputation was suggested in other hospital), Doctors at
Parvathy Hospital performed treatment by which I regained my upper limb and able
to move my hand. I am confident that sooner I can resume my natural work.” 💥💥
