Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 17: Senior Director Medanta Bone & Joint Institute, Gurgaon, Dr Raman Kant Aggarwal today said that shoulders can also be replaced now.
While delivering a lecture during a CME, organized by Jonson & Jonson, Dr Aggarwal said, “People in North were in doubt regarding the replacement of shoulders, but now at Medanta, the high ended technology has changed the perspective among the public at large as shoulders too are replaced. with a success rate of 94 percent depending upon screening of patients.”
Dr Raman Kant Aggarwal is one of the best Joint Replacement and Arthroscopic Surgeon for shoulder, elbow and knee in India. He is one of the best for Sports Injuries and Joint Replacement Surgeries. Apart from Arthroscopy of shoulder, Knee and Elbow, Dr Raman Kant Aggarwal is one of the very few Surgeons specializing in Shoulder Replacement in India. He went for his fellowship at Katharinnen Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany (2003) in Advanced Orthopaedic Reconstruction and Shoulder Arthroscopy and Replacement. He did go to UK for specialized surgical training in the field of arthroscopic surgery of shoulder in 2004 and got his training at Wrightington Hospital, UK. After that Dr Raman Kant Aggarwal did his fellowship in Shoulder Replacement Surgery and Elbow Arthroscopic Surgery at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt hospital, Oswestry, UK.
Dr Aggarwal came back to India in 2009 and joined Medanta – The Medicity, Gurgaon, India. Dr Aggarwal has established the shoulder clinic and joint pain at Medanta Bone and Joint Institute and specializes in performing key hole (Arthroscopic) surgery of the shoulder for dislocating shoulders, sports injuries, frozen shoulders, tears of the cuff and joint replacement surgeries. He also specializes in fixing shoulder joint replacements for many types of arthritis and fractures of the shoulder joint. He is one of the best joint replacement and arthroscopic surgeon in India.
Speaking to gathering of Sr Doctors and Dignitaries from Jammu region, in the CME, Dr Aggarwal informed about the risk factors of shoulder surgery and said, “There are no specific risks of the procedure besides the usual complications associated with anaesthesia and any other general surgery like shortness of breath, pulmonary embolism, nausea vomiting, shock etc. Besides there can be formation of blood Clots, prosthesis problems and nerve damage.”
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