Amara Hospital performs first robotic knee replacement surgery in Tirupati

Amara Hospital MD Ramadevi Gourineni and the team of doctors posing with the patient Narayana (63), who is recovering from a robotic knee replacement surgery.

Amara Hospital in Tirupati performed its first robotic knee replacement surgery, thus bringing precision-ensured surgery to Rayalaseema region.

According to Amara Hospital managing director (MD) Ramadevi Gourineni, the advent of robotic surgery is expected to strengthen the healthcare facilities available in Tirupati, providing patients access to sophisticated treatment technologies that were lacking earlier.

“Robotic surgery is not a replacement for the surgeon, but it enhances the surgical process with less human error and tolerance of challenging patient conditions. The robot constructs a 3D real-time model of the knee joint and enables patient-specific planning. It ensures optimal fixation and alignment of implants, with result in more enduring outcomes,” Dr. Gourineni said. Meanwhile, the patient Narayana (63) of Tirupati is undergoing recovery.

In a post on ‘X’, she pointed out that despite the success of conventional knee replacement surgeries, robotics and self-learning AI directs surgeons towards more accuracy and precision in performing surgeries.

Complicated cardiac surgery

Meanwhile, the Department of Cardiology at Amara Hospital performed a complicated surgery recently on a senior citizen, who is stated to be doing well after discharge.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) was performed on a patient suffering from degenerative aortic valve with severe stenosis. The catheter-based procedure is used to replace a diseased aortic valve without open-heart surgery, especially in cases having high or intermediate surgical risk.

The team of surgeons led by the Cardiology head Venkata Sivakrishna and comprising Venkatesh Gurajala and Syed Mohammed Nowshad, along with Hemanth from Cardiac Anaesthesia and Nagaraj Makam from the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons department performed the surgery, which, they said, involved technical difficulties for the elderly patient having multiple co-morbidities. The patient chose to remain anonymous.

“The advancements in structural interventional techniques now make it possible to repair these defects with minimally invasive procedures, providing a safer alternative to open-heart surgery for high-risk individuals,” Dr. Venkata Sivakrishna told the media on Monday.