Twenty years of illness pain, the 81 -year -old man has stepped out of the pace of "six relatives"

The Tianyou Hospital of Wuhan University of Science and Technology/Tongji Tianyou Hospital successfully performed UBE endoscopy lumbar spine fusion for an elderly patient.

Wuhan Evening News June 27 (Correspondent Xie Jing Liu Xia) "In recent years, I have seen a doctor everywhere, taking medicine, rehabilitation, and physical therapy. It solved the pain that tortured me for more than 20 years. "Grandpa Chen said excitedly. Recently, Tianyou Hospital/Tongji Tianyou Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology successfully performed UBE endoscopic lumbar spine fusion for an elderly patient. Two days after the operation, patients can go down to the ground.

Grandpa Chen is 81 years old, with back pain for more than 20 years. In recent years, he has suffered from torture of lumbar disc herniation. Lumbar pain exacerbated numbness with his right lower limb numbness. Because the elderly are too old, they have a number of basic diseases and weigh 200 pounds. They cannot surgery through several hospitals and can only receive conservative treatment. "But I have done medicine, physiotherapy, and recovery. "". Grandpa Chen was miserable. A few days ago, accompanied by her daughter, Grandpa Chen came to the spine orthopedic department of Tongji Tianyou Hospital. When admission was admitted, it was already a state of difficulty and difficulty walking. The doctor diagnosis is: lumbar spine instability, lumbar disc herniation with sciatica. If it continues to develop, the elderly will not be able to walk completely.

"This surgery, we can do it!" At Tongji Tianyou Hospital, the doctor's culprit made Grandpa Chen full of confidence. After detailed evaluation and discussion, and after the consent of the patients and their families, Professor Guan Hanfeng, the orthopedic Hospital of Tongji Hospital resident in the spine orthopedic department, performed UBE (one-sided dual-channel spine endoscopy technology) endoscopic L4-5, L5-S1 decompression fusion.

During the surgery, the clear field of vision under the mirror and the familiar open surgical equipment operation allowed the surgery to complete the surgery smoothly without peeling, less bleeding, and high efficiency. The lumbar spine surgery of the two segments can be completed with only 6 small incisions (about 1.5 cm each).

"In order to see the traditional cutting surgery, in order to see clearly, doctors often need to extensively strip muscles, cut bones, and open nerves, leading to postoperative muscle atrophy, scarization, scars around the nerve, severe pain and pain. Endoscopy is directly inserted around the nerve, and dozens of times amplified on the 4K high -definition screen. Therefore, no need to destroy muscle, bone and nerve peripheral tissue; retain the normal structure of the spine to the greatest extent, maintain the stability of the spine after surgery, and the wound surface is small. , Fast recovery, generally one day after surgery can get out of bed activities. In addition, there are the advantages of less bleeding and low infection rate. "Guan Hanfeng introduced that UBE technology can establish two channels, one observation channel, and an instrument operation channel; The endoscopy is separated from the operating equipment. The surgical field of vision is larger and the surgical safety is large. It is suitable for a variety of types of cervical, lumbar spine, and thoracic spine disease. It is an emerging spinal minimally invasive technology.

Because UBE endoscopic surgery has less muscle, bones, and neural harassment and less bleeding, patients often feel good after surgery. Two days after the operation, Grandpa Chen could walk down on his own. One week after the operation, there was no signs of pain after surgery.

Guan Hanfeng suggested that in daily life, you must prevent sitting for a long time, looking at mobile phones for a long time, and strengthening exercise, such as swimming, consume very little for joints and spine; at the same time Highlighting, maintaining good living habits, such as quit smoking to prevent disc herniation.

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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