Anatomical Hip Replacement Surgery of Young Siddhi Shelar Under Dr. Shailendra Patil
At the young age of 17 most of us like to enjoy our teenage years by hanging out with friends and living life to the fullest. However, that was not the case for our young Siddhi Shelar. At 16 she was diagnosed with blood cancer. Over the next few years she underwent a series of chemo and other therapy to treat her cancer. A fight with a will to survive Siddhi was completely cured of cancer in 3 years. However, little did she knows the tool this treatment would take her. One day on her way to college siddhi felt a sudden pain in her hip joint and had difficulty lifting her leg. Fearing for the worse they consulted their oncologist who assured that this was more of an orthopaedic problem than cancer. Orthopaedic from a government hospital, diagnosed her with avascular necrosis (AVN) of the Hip joint. AVN is known to occur in patients who have used steroids before. Steroids was a part of Siddhi’s treatment protocol. Over the course of few months Siddhi’s AVN had reached a stage where...