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Most advanced Revision Total Knee Replacement (TKR) patient Ahmed shares recovery journey

Tree Top Hospital (TTH) has successfully completed numerous advanced Revision Total Knee Replacement (TKR).

Tree Top Hospital holds the prestige of the first successful most advanced Total Knee Replacement surgery in the Maldives for a 62-year-old male patient, Mr. Ahmed. Mr. Ahmed who had previously undergone knee replacement surgery twice before on the same knee, was in an unfortunate accident in which he sustained major injuries including fracturing just above the knee component fixed over the lower end of his thigh bone (femur). Additionally, the Mr. Ahmed also fractured both sides of the lower end of the femur, and avulsion of both collateral ligaments. This is considered a very serious injury that could have caused Mr. Ahmed bedridden without being able to move freely. However, the Orthopedic Consultant Doctors of Tree Top Hospital helped Mr. Ahmed.

Mr. Ahmed presented to Tree Top Hospital after six months of injury with malunion fracture and complete destruction of side ligaments which included Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL) and Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL). Hence, the lower end of thigh bone causing pain was resected or cut out and ligaments and deficient bone were restructured with special limb saving mega prosthesis.

“I was completely hopeless after my accident but when I came to Tree Top Hospital” Mr. Ahmed said happily “the doctors here showed me wonderfully kind care and have me hope that I could walk again on my own two feet. Today I am able to walk on my own. I can’t thank my doctors enough.”

This was a milestone major revision joint replacement surgery which was successfully completed in the Maldives at Tree Top Hospital. In the past, many patients requiring similar complex procedures would have to seek advanced medical care from abroad. However, Tree Top Hospital has ushered in advancements in health care sector which have the facilitated treatment of complex care issues locally within the Maldives.

Tree Top Hospital’s Joint Replacement and Reconstructive Surgeons have vast experience and performed many revision TKR surgeries making them some of the most renowned orthopedic surgeons in South Asia.

For more information and appointment booking, call +9603351610 or email care@treetophospital.com