BHUBANESWAR: Orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine expert Dr Sarthak Patnaik has conducted an advanced surgery and placed an artificial ligament in the knee of a 25-year-old woman.
Dr Patnaik implanted the synthetic device for reconstructing an torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), a key soft tissue responsible for stabilisation of the knee. The woman, who weighs around 135 kg, had come to Bhubaneswar for the surgery from Haryana’s Gurugram. She was also suffering from a meniscus tear.
The meniscus is a rubbery cartilage in the knee that acts as a shock absorber. Dr Patnaik is one of the first surgeons in Odisha to have executed this advanced arthroscopic procedure in eastern India using a bio-absorbable collagen implant, called the BioBrace.
