Doctors in Belagavi government hospital successfully treat deformed leg of burns victim using Ilizarov technique

BelagaviDoctors successfully correct deformity in fire accident patient using Ilizarov technique, enabling her to walk again.

Doctors of the Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital successfully corrected a deformity in a fire accident patient.

A team of orthopaedic surgeons led by Satish Nesari, associate professor, operated upon the patient using Ilizarov technique to cure the girl’s deformed feet and enabled her to use it after years of disuse.

The girl had suffered severe burns in childhood. It caused contracture of the right ankle with grotesque deformity, making her unable to walk. The fire had completely twisted the ankle and it had remained an unused appendage.

Her poor parents did not choose corrective surgery as they could not afford treatment. She suffered from social stigma and her friends and relatives teased her due to her deformity. Due to this deformity, she had remained unmarried. Efforts by her parents to get her treated were unsuccessful. Some surgeons advised her to opt for amputation below the knee. But the parents did not opt for it.

Her parents approached BIMS Hospital after several years of the injury. Doctors in the Orthopaedia Department advised her to undergo corrective surgery using Ilizarov technique.

And, the corrective surgery using Ilizarov treatment cured the patient.

“The deformity is completely corrected now. She is able to walk almost normally,” Dr. Nesari said.