PANAJI
A rare and complicated surgery was successfully performed on a patient suffering from a deformed femur, by Dr Rohan Dessai, Consultant, Hip and Knee Replacement Surgeon, Manipal Hospitals, Goa.
Dr Dessai is the First Joint Replacement Surgeon from Goa to perform Augmented Reality Total Knee Replacement and only one of the few in the Country so far to have successfully performed such a surgery.
The procedure is called Augmented Reality (AR) Knee Replacement surgery. This AR-assisted total knee replacement was done for the first time in the world three years ago. And now, the same has been done by Dr Dessai at Manipal Hospitals, Goa.
Speaking about the successful surgery, Dr Dessai said, “The patient had a deformed femur (thigh bone) and shin bone (tibia) on account of malunited fractures and surgeries over a period of 6-7 years. This led to post-traumatic arthritis of the knee which warranted a total knee replacement surgery. However, due to deformed bones, a standard or conventional total knee replacement surgery was impossible. The only options left were robotic knee replacement or Augmented Reality-assisted total knee replacement. In an AR-assisted total knee replacement, the surgeon wears a headband with AR glasses while conducting the surgery.”
There are many advantages of AR-based total knee replacement over computer navigation-assisted total knee replacement.
