Mangaluru: The plastic surgeons of Father Muller’s successfully saved a limb of a 40-year-old male patient named Abdul Azeez.
Patient Abdul, hailing from Aavalapadoor, Bantwal was brought to the Father Muller Medical College Hospital with an alleged history of a road traffic accident on April 19 near Kundapura. He had sustained a severe degloving injury of heal & back of right foot and injury to hip bone.
The crushed and badly injured foot was successfully managed by the plastic surgery team of Father Muller’s headed by Dr Aravind Rao, and Dr Harshit, ortho registrar, and Dr. Shivraj, surgery registrar.
Doctors said that the patient underwent multiple surgeries including debridement skin grafting and free tissue transfer. The patient recovered well after surgeries and was discharged. “Currently he is on physiotherapy and recuperation he has shown excellent healing, they informed.
The patient was managed by a team of plastic surgeons Dr Aravind rao, Dr Harshith, Dr Shivaraj, urologist Dr Prashanth Adiga, Dr Anuj and orthopedics Dr Alfred, Dr Calvin.
