What should I expect from meniscus surgery?
Meniscus is a cushion in the form C -shaped on both sides of the person's knee joint. Sometimes this padding is torn or damaged. Meniscus surgery is used to repair or remove damaged tissue. Among the things that most people can expect from meniscus surgery are small cuts, the use of a small camera to see inside the knee and the use of general anesthetic. Many patients can return home on the same day the operation is performed. In most cases, patients are subjected to general anesthesia or are without pain in spinal anesthesia without pain. General anesthesia gives the patient to sleep, so he does not feel or remember surgery. Spinal anesthesia blocks the pain in the lower body.
During the surgery of the meniscus, the surgeon uses a small camera called an arthroscope to view the interior of the knee joint of the patient. Makes only small cuts, usually two or three, through which the cling to the knee. Placed a camera and small tools used for the surgeryby the dwarf of these cuts.
Other things that one can expect from meniscus surgery depends on the procedure that the surgeon performs. Partial meniscctomy includes the location of the damaged part of the padding and its removal. With the help of arthroscope and surgical probe, the surgeon locates the torn part of the meniscus and removes it using small tools that pass slices. It then cropped the edge of the meniscus, rinse the joint with a saline and closed with the wound closed.
Sometimes stitches are used to repair part of torn cartilage rather than remove it from the body. To do this, the surgeon uses special tools so that the torn edges are rougher and then sewed their edges together. In other cases, the suture anchors are used to repair the torn meniscus, which act as a staplese or pins that hold padding together. Anchors of the stitch used in meniscus surgery are surgical fasteningthe elements that the body eventually absorbs.
Sometimes a meniscus repair is not possible. In this case, the surgeon can remove and transplant a donor meniscus. Surgeon sew donor meniscus on the patient's tibia, bone in the lower leg. In some cases, anchors are also used to keep them on site.
Like all operations, there are some complications with meniscus surgery. Possible complications include infections, abnormal blood clotting and abnormal bleeding. Some people can develop problems related to anesthesia or have transplants or anchors that fail. For example, the anchor could break away, or the body could reject a transplanted meniscus. However, most people recover from meniscus surgery without serious complications.
Another thing one can expect from meniscus surgery is to go home quickly. Most people are released from Hospitaltal on the same day the operation is performed. If there are complications from the procedure or anestoTika, the patient can spend a few days in the hospital while they are resolved.