The dangers of height-increasing surgery

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Posted on Apr. 4, 2007, 7:47am - by George Lindemann in Plastic Surgery News
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Orthopedic specialists in Guangzhou, China have released a warning against height-increasing surgery. The physicians are telling people who are planning to improve self-image by undergoing the Ilizarov procedure, also known as the limb-lengthening surgery, to seriously be cautious it as it might cause to lead partial paralysis.

The warning was issued after a 25-year-old woman, nicknamed Xaomei, from Guangzhou was left crippled in her lower right leg after undergoing the procedure at Guangzhou Yuandong Cosmetics Hospital.

The Ilizarov procedure involves breaking and separating the bones of the patient's lower leg, and then allowing them to grow back to span the gap.

Xaomei told reporters that she had been seriously crippled after getting the surgery in March 2005, because the gap had failed to close. She said that she paid more than 50,000 yuan ($6,410) for the surgery to increase her height by 8cm to 16cm. However, she was later found to have a Grade eight disability by judicial authentication.

Chen Ke, an orthopedic surgeon with the Guangzhou Air-Force Hospital said that the Ilizarov procedure should only be used as a medical procedure. He added that it is highly risky to treat it as a cosmetic surgery procedure.

It has been noted that the Ilizarov procedure was introduced in 2000 as a reliable operation. However, based on the dangers and risks this procedure brings to its patients, the Ministry of Health issued a regulation to ban the procedure last October after an increasing number of patients were reported to have experienced pain, lack of strength in their legs, and even deformities.

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