Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad pioneers Microvascular Hand Replantation in Telugu states

Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad on Wednesday announced successful completion of a complex reattachment of an arm in a 32-year-old patient from Mancherial despite surpassing the critical golden hour

Hyderabad: Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad on Wednesday announced successful completion of a complex reattachment of an arm in a 32-year-old patient from Mancherial, who suffered severe elbow-level amputation of the right hand, shattered open fracture of long bone in the upper arm connecting the shoulder.

The patient, A Pavan Kumar was admitted to the hospital on October 11 with severe injuries in the right arm. Despite surpassing the critical golden hour window of 4 to 6 hours for re-implantation, the care givers at Apollo Hospitals formed two teams wherein one team prepared the amputated hand while the other one worked on the patient’s arm to enable reattachment.

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Post-surgery, the patient is on a promising recovery trajectory, as his reattached hand is healing well, with plans for additional surgeries in six months to further restore finger movement and sensation, doctors said.

“When a limb gets amputated, the amputated part has to be first washed in water and preserved in a polythene cover or Aluminum wrapper and placed in an ice pack. There is a need to make people aware that such surgeries can also be taken-up,” advised Dr.GN Bandari, senior Hand, Wrist, and Reconstructive Microsurgeon at Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad.