Bengaluru : A 66-year-old African patient suffering from multiple co-morbidities  gave a new lease of life treating via “Mako Robotic Arm-Assisted Technology” at Fortis Hospital  bannegatta bengaluru. The patient had been suffering from knee pain for past 15 years and faced immobility successfully performed the bilateral total knee replacement surgery on the patient. Dr. Narayan Hulse, Director – Department of Orthopaedics, Bone & Joint Surgery, addressing pressconference said.

 “we operated on both knees of the patient individually withing a gap of 3 days . Mako Robotic Technology helped us creat a 3D virtual model of the patient’s damaged knee and plan the corrective surgery.During surgery the Robotic-Arm assisted in resecting the bone in an appropriate angle, personalised for this patient.Unlike routine knee replacements”, he said.

This particular case patient needed additional implants like stems and augments to reinforce the weak bone, he said

 “While traditional knee of hip replacement surgeries have considerable improved paitents’ quality of life over the past three decades, Mako has significantly increased the accuracy, aided precise planning and bone-cut, faster recovery, quicker discharge, and less blodd loss. This technology has completely transformed how joint replacements are being carried out,” Dr Hulse added.

Mako , a Robatic platform that facilitates partial knee problem (for young people)  and total hip replacement on the same platform, Fortis Hospital  adapt the cutting edge technology across fortis network of Hospitals in the country. Hospital treated over 50 patients in just one month via this technology. He added.