Simultaneous bilateral hip surgery (in both joints) is not only cost effective, but it also saves time, and lessens blood loss, explained 25-year-old Dr Kaiwan Randeria, senior resident surgeon at Mahatma Gandhi Mission (MGM) Hospital in Aurangabad. He was part of a team that successfully conducted the first such surgery in the Aurangabad Division of Maharashtra State on September 30, 2020. Randeria spoke to Parsiana on November 5 while on a visit to his parents Armin and Mehernosh in Bombay.
Dr Kaiwan Randeria (inset) and above with team of surgeons
The patient was a 28-year-old farmer suffering from "arthritis secondary to avascular necrosis,” a disease that results from decreased blood supply to the bones. He had developed severe deformities in both hip joints. "He was unable to stand, walk and perform his day-to-day duties… In such cases, a two-phase surgery is generally performed with a time interval of three to six months between the hip replacement surgeries on each side,” stated the medico.
MGM’s head of orthopedics Dr Girish Gadekar decided to operate on both the hip joints simultaneously. The farmer was able to stand and walk on the day after his surgery and was discharged on October 6, six days after the five-hour surgery, Randeria stated. The patient "has been able to walk without the support of a walker since then.” Such surgeries are extremely challenging for the surgeons but result in a speedier recovery for the patients, he mentioned.
Besides Randeria and Gadekar, the other team members were lecturer Dr Gajanan Kathar, chief resident surgeon Dr Abhishek Kulkarni and junior resident surgeon Dr Monica Verma.
An alumnus of Bombay’s Greenlawns School and K. C. College, Randeria completed his graduate medical degree (MBBS) at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, a deemed university in Karad, Maharashtra. He is looking to join a fellowship program in arthroplasty (procedure to restore the function of a joint) and arthroscopy (minimally invasive surgery) after completing his residency in September 2021.