AIIMS Bhubaneswar Conducts First Total Femur Replacement in Odisha

AIIMS Bhubaneswar Conducts First Total Femur Replacement in Odisha

The orthopaedic department of AIIMS Bhubaneswar has performed a total femur replacement which is a first in Odisha.

A team of doctors led by Dr. Sujit Kumar Tripathy, Additional Professor, Dept of Orthopaedics, AIIMS Bhubaneswar has operated on a 30-year young man from Kendrapara district who had a huge tumour in the left thigh bone. He was suffering from a primitive neuroectodermal tumour of the thigh bone. He had already undergone two surgeries previously in 2018 and 2019 that was inadequate to remove the tumour completely.

The young man subsequently developed a recurrence of the tumour and received chemotherapy prior to the current surgery. The tumour was close to the blood vessels. He had visited several hospitals in the State before coming to AIIMS. After initial investigations, a team of doctors led by an additional professor of the Orthopaedics department Dr. Sujit Kumar Tripathy decided to go for femur replacement, which is an arthroplasty procedure used as an alternative to lower limb amputation. After careful surgery, the whole of the tumour was removed completely and the total femur mega prosthesis was implanted by Dr. Sujit Kumar Tripathy and his team of orthopaedic department AIIMS Bhubaneswar. The difficult surgery took around 4 hours.

Dr Aparajita Panda and her team provided anaesthesia to the team. This was the first surgery of total femur replacement in Odisha. The post-surgery patient is fine, said Dr. Sujit Tripathy. However, the patient has to receive further chemotherapy and the postoperative period needs vigilant management.

AIIMS Bhubaneswar Director Prof Mukesh Tripathi and Superintendent Dr. S N Mohanty have congratulated the team for the first ever total femur replacement in Odisha.