Dr. Aashish Chaudhry
Managing Director and Senior Consultant Orthopedics
Aakash Healthcare, New Delhi
3D Printing Improves Treatment for Dorsal Scoliosis
Aakash Healthcare Used 3D Printed Jigs for correcting the Scoliosis Deformity
Aakash Healthcare Super Specialty Hospital is treating the most complex cases in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, Dwarka. The hospital is equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, the latest technology, competent clinicians, and compassionate staff with well known for its leading care in the Orthopaedic and Joint replacement surgery.
To achieve the highest patient satisfaction and to provide the best healthcare service to the local and extended community; Aakash Healthcare has taken a step forward in setting up a modern 3D printing lab on its premises known as ‘Cure 𝒄 ̅ 3D’. This lab shall be used to help surgeons & clinicians to create 3D models of complex clinical cases for the purpose of patient education, planning surgical treatment & also to create patient specific jigs & other medical devices which will enable accurate & safe surgical interventions.
Apart from creating high-quality models for patient education, resident teachings, and ‘in Vitro/ Outside OT practicing of complex surgeries; this Lab will go a long way in bringing innovative solutions to complex and difficult clinical cases.
“The importance of 3D printing in Healthcare industries is increasing day by day and the impact of these is significant in terms of patient, education, pre-surgical, planning and the total point of care.”
Dr. Aashish Chaudhry,
Managing Director and Senior Consultant Orthopedics
Aakash Healthcare, New Delhi
“3D Printing is coverting visions into reality”
Mr Amulya Sharma,
Program Manager Cure & 3D
“Assisting Surgeons in Complex Surgeries using Surgical Simulations & 3D Printing for reduced Surgery time & accurate outcomes”
Mr. Priyank Yeolekar,
3D Healthcare Printing Specialist – Cure & 3D
Treating Scoliosis deformity From a New Perspective
The Challenge
Scoliosis is a sideways curving of the spine. The term dorsal scoliosis refers to any such curvature of the spine that occurs between the bottom of the neck and the top of the pelvis.
A 12-year-old girl from Kyrgyzstan has undergone a rare surgery in Aakash Healthcare, New Delhi. The victim was suffering from Progressive Scoliosis Dorsolumbar (a rare condition that affects approximately three children in every one lakh). This caused her spine to bend a lot. At the same time, due to suffering from pelvic obliques, one of her hips was bigger than the other and this lead to pelvic misalignment. According to doctors at Aakash Healthcare, the girl’s condition was getting worse with each passing day. She could not even walk due to severe pain and due to this her body was tilting to one side which lead to a spine curvature of 130 degrees.
Fast, Efficient workflow and Ease of use
On reaching the hospital, she underwent 16-hour spine surgery in two phases by the Ortho-Spine division at Aakash healthcare. In the first stage of surgery, which lasted six hours, soft tissue adhesions were removed, and multiple osteotomies (bone cuts) were used to increase the spine’s flexibility while correcting the alignment in the coronal plane.
The second phase of the surgery involved the insertion of several titanium screws. The positioning of the screw, its size, length, and direction was performed with the help of Bio-compatible 3D Printed Jigs.
“Due to the spine’s severe deformity and the difficulty in inserting screws, the 3D printed jigs served as a crucial component to execute the surgery safely and without complications. The 3D imprint aided in surgical planning by calculating the size of the bone pedicles through which screws were put.”
Dr. Nagesh Chandra,
Senior consultant, Spine Surgery, Aakash Healthcare
3D Printed patient spine showing abnormal curvature at multiple stages – Pre-operative, after 1st stage surgery and 2nd stage surgery with 3D printed jigs and titanium screw insertion.
Pre-surgical planning on 3D Printed spine model with jigs placed at precise location for spine correction.
MED-610 Bio-compatible 3D printed Jig printed on Stratasys J5 Medijet all in one medical 3D printer
3D printed model of patient-specific Jigs printed on Stratasys J5 MediJet medical 3D printer in Med-610 Bio-compatible material.
High Accuracy The Key to Successful Products
These custom-made 3D printed jigs played an important role in pre-operative planning and also gave the surgeons an opportunity to practice the complicated screw insertion procedure on a 3D printed model which was a traced copy of the deformed spine.
Mr. Priyank Yeolekar working on a digital model of a deformed spine for accurate positioning of Jigs for screw insertion.
Sterilized 3D printed jig used during surgical treatment for accurate positioning and placement of Titanium screws.
With the help of Stratasys J5 Medijet all-in-one Medical 3D printer and MED610 Biocompatible material we were able to 3D print highly accurate patient specific custom Jigs which was steam, Gamma and EtO sterilizable for clinical application and are meant to contact with tissue and bone during operative measurements.
Dr. Chandra added, “At every stage, 3D printing helped to plan the screw’s size, length, and direction. The most important feature is that it considerably lowered the risk of neurological complications and the associated problems. We could achieve almost 70 per cent to 80 per cent correction after surgery. Now her spine curvature has been reduced to just 30 degrees.”
Publication Date : September, 2022
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