Bone from Italian saves Yemeni girl through orthopaedic oncology in India
Recently, alive heart transported to Chennai saved a patient in the nick of time. Months before that, a bone airlifted from Italy had given a new lease of live to Yemen native. The girl who underwent the surgery in India in February, is back on her feet now.
Maram Mohammad sahel, 20, a medical student from Sana's Yemen, was diagnosed with a bone cancer one year ago at a city hospital. Through the tumor in her elbow was not found to be malignant at first, it kept growing in size. Doctor, at HCG, a cancer care hospital, sent a world wide request for matching custom elbow joint and fresh frozen allograft of the elbow. A matching bone harvested from a cadaver donor airlifted from Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy, in January 2014.
How was it done? " we have to match the bone size with the patient's age. In Maram's case we luckily matching bone from brain-dead patient. As soon as the bone was harvested. It was immersed on liquid nitrogen and maintained at minus 80 degree C. It took two days for it to reach Bangalore from a bone bank of Italy,"said Dr. Pramod S Chinder, consultant orthopaedic oncology in India, who operated on Maram in February.
In a 12 hour surgery, Maram underwent Allograft Prosthetic Composite (APC) , A procedure that replace the removed bone stock with an allograft but combine it with a metallic implant. Bone bank have bone harvest from cadaver donors as well as live donors, who go in for a joint replacement or a hip replacement. Through the bones are maintained in freezers, there is a possibiality of them losing strength gradually. To prevent this, radiation is carried out before transplanting the bone.
In Maram comes from a family with a medical background ; her mother is a gynaec-oncologist."She (the girl)is brave knowledgeable ," said Dr. Pramod.
There is not much awareness in India about conversation of bone of brain-dead patients, said doctors who are initiating a bone bank at HCG.
Recently, alive heart transported to Chennai saved a patient in the nick of time. Months before that, a bone airlifted from Italy had given a new lease of live to Yemen native. The girl who underwent the surgery in India in February, is back on her feet now.
Maram Mohammad sahel, 20, a medical student from Sana's Yemen, was diagnosed with a bone cancer one year ago at a city hospital. Through the tumor in her elbow was not found to be malignant at first, it kept growing in size. Doctor, at HCG, a cancer care hospital, sent a world wide request for matching custom elbow joint and fresh frozen allograft of the elbow. A matching bone harvested from a cadaver donor airlifted from Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy, in January 2014.
How was it done? " we have to match the bone size with the patient's age. In Maram's case we luckily matching bone from brain-dead patient. As soon as the bone was harvested. It was immersed on liquid nitrogen and maintained at minus 80 degree C. It took two days for it to reach Bangalore from a bone bank of Italy,"said Dr. Pramod S Chinder, consultant orthopaedic oncology in India, who operated on Maram in February.
In a 12 hour surgery, Maram underwent Allograft Prosthetic Composite (APC) , A procedure that replace the removed bone stock with an allograft but combine it with a metallic implant. Bone bank have bone harvest from cadaver donors as well as live donors, who go in for a joint replacement or a hip replacement. Through the bones are maintained in freezers, there is a possibiality of them losing strength gradually. To prevent this, radiation is carried out before transplanting the bone.
In Maram comes from a family with a medical background ; her mother is a gynaec-oncologist."She (the girl)is brave knowledgeable ," said Dr. Pramod.
There is not much awareness in India about conversation of bone of brain-dead patients, said doctors who are initiating a bone bank at HCG.
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