An accident in Tashkent four years ago left Uzbek national Kavlaynova Oygul with a complex case of a broken thigh bone that refused to heal despite several medical interventions. Weighing 130 kg and unable to walk all these years, the 34-year-old woman developed more complications due to morbid obesity.
With her excessive weight and inability to walk and exercise threatening her life, her family decided to seek medical help in India. Finally, it was at the city’s Indraprastha Apollo Hospital that a surgery was performed to rejoin the broken thigh bone. Dr. Rajeev. K. Sharma, senior consultant for Orthopaedics and joint replacement surgeon at the hospital, said: “Kavlaynova was a case of non-union of fracture of the left femur.”
Non-union of fracture is a condition when a broken bone refuses to heal and remains in such a state even after sufficient time has passed. “The patient presented a complex case,” said the doctor. The fracture was operated upon using a special 14-inch titanium locking plate with massive bone grafting.
