New Delhi, July 26 -- : Doctors at a Gurugram hospital have successfully implanted a custom-made 3D printed hip implant, said to be the largest in India, on a 60-year-old Tanzanian patient who had a damaged pelvic bone.
The customized implant was required because the Tanzanian woman Hanifa had undergone three previous hip surgeries due to which her pelvic bone was badly damaged had left very little bony support for the new readily available hip implants.
A team of orthopedics led by Dr Subhash Jangid, Director and Unit Head, Bone and Joint Institute at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram performed this difficult and challenging surgery, which took around seven hours.
The hip prosthesis was lying loose in the pelvis and the patie...