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Monday, Apr 19, 2004

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Symposium on transplants

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, APRIL 18. Leading orthopaedic surgeons from across Northern India met here at a symposium this past week to highlight a new technique in hip arthroplasty. The expert team led by Dr. S.K.S. Marya, a pioneer of bilateral joint replacement of knee and hip and Derek McMinn, inventor of the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) Surgery, demonstrated how hip surfaces can be safely be transplanted using bone preserving techniques and wear-resistant bearings.

"The resurfacing procedure is by far most relevant in the Indian sub-continent and the rest of Asia where primary hip osteoarthritis of the elderly is extremely rare and most individuals who require arthroplasty of the hip are young." said Dr. Marya, adding: "Besides, certain social demands like sitting or praying on the floor that are integral to many Asian cultures is made feasible only after the hip resurfacing option."

According to Mr. McMinn, "the early failure rate of hip surface transplant was strikingly high due to the enormous volume of polyethylene debris produced, had earned the hip-resurfacing concept a bad reputation. However, the `modern' or the newer generation hip resurfacing devices which employ a "metal on metal'' bearing have a dramatic success rate of over 98 per cent.

Currently with more than 100 surgeons taking it up actively in Europe, most major orthopedic implant manufacturers are developing their own version of `metal on metal' hip resurfacing systems. In Delhi, the surgery is available at Max Healthcare's secondary care hospitals at Panchsheel, NOIDA and Pitampura.

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