Rela Hospital Becomes First in Tamil Nadu to Use Synthetic Ligament for Treating Knee Injury
Synthetic ligaments eliminate the need for an additional procedure, which has to be performed to harvest ligaments in the case of autograft Unlike allograft, there is no waiting period or requirement of regulatory approvals in procuring ligaments Chennai, June 22, 2024: Mr E. Manikandan, a 23-year-old software professional from Chennai, has become the first person in Tamil Nadu to receive synthetic ligaments, as he successfully underwent an arthroscopy surgery today at Rela Hospital for the multi-ligament knee injury he sustained in a road accident three months ago. The surgeons used artificial ligaments to reconstruct two cruciate ligaments, the ones that are found inside the knee. In a staged intervention, surgeons at Rela Hospital first stabilised the patient’s fractured pelvic region with external fixation and repaired a few other damaged ligaments and nerves in the knee. After a gap of three months, they performed an hour-long arthroscopy procedure today using synthet...
