South Africa: Tygerberg Hospital Completes SA's First Fully Internal Limb Reconstruction

Tygerberg Hospital Performs SA’s First Fully Internal Bone Transport Surgery

The operation, completed in partnership with Stellenbosch University, signals a leap forward for complex trauma care and positions Tygerberg Hospital as a leader in cutting-edge orthopaedic reconstruction.

South Africa completes 1st fully internal limb reconstruction

South Africa completes 1st fully internal limb reconstruction

South Africa: Tygerberg Hospital Completes SA's First Fully Internal Limb Reconstruction

Tygerberg Hospital has reached a major national milestone by performing South Africa's first fully internal bone transport and limb-lengthening reconstruction.

Tygerberg Hospital completes SA's first fully internal limb reconstruction

Tygerberg Hospital has reached a major national milestone by performing South Africa’s first fully internal bone transport and limb-lengthening reconstruction.  The hospital is a flagship tertiary facility of the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness (WCDHW).  Advanced limb salvage technique In partnership with Stellenbosch University, the hospital now stands among only a few centres worldwide with the capability to perform this advance…

Tygerberg Hospital Makes History By Performing First Bone Transport Surgery in SA

[Image: Facebook] When it comes to the health sector in South Africa, we have a lot to brag about. I mean, the world’s first-ever heart transplant took place at Groote Schuur Hospital in 1967. Now, flagship tertiary facility of the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness (WCDHW), Tygerberg Hospital, has made national history by completing the first fully internal bone transport and limb-lengthening reconstruction in the country. Impressiv…

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Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape, in partnership with Stellenbosch University, has performed South Africa’s first fully internal “bone transport and limb-lengthening” reconstruction. A 64-year-old patient, who had lived with chronic pain and a leg-length difference following a 2018 gunshot injury, had a bone defect reconstructed and the discrepancy corrected. Head of Stellenbosch University’s Clinical Unit for Tumour, Sepsis and Reconstru…