I'm currently living the same country in which he performs the surgery and obviously he's one of the cheapest options; but I keep hearing all sorts about the death of this one patient.
As far as I can tell, the person sadly died of fat embolism seven days after surgery, and no one seems to be able to deduce whether it was the fault of the surgeon or just a total fluke -- that incredibly rare scenario we've all heard about that can happen with any surgeon.
I'm wanting to do Tibias. Haven't decided whether LON or internal yet. I'm currently 5'8.6, and would like to gain 5cm (though I'd be interesting in discussing if 6cm is a possibility as that would get me to pretty much 5'11).
I don't know if the fat embolism risk is more a thing with internal femurs -- perhaps my risk would be less doing LON and tibias? But regardless, the one very sad incident is a fly in the ointment for someone I'd otherwise be very confident going with. I've had the initial free consultation and did warm to the doctor.
Can anyone shed any light on anything regarding the above? Many thanks!
Dr. Giotikas seems like the best option for me, but I'm concerned
I have no idea, nobody seems to have much info on the case!
Quote from: Limbfan2020 on April 23, 2023, 08:42:06 PMDo you have the balls to ask him those questions?
I'll most definitely ask him if I have a full consultation with him.
Quote from: DanishViking on April 23, 2023, 08:43:56 PMSee this thread: http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=81316.0
This was a part of my comment and my respons:
As he states, some higher law inforcement agency (don't know the correct term lol) actually checked the situation following up the incident and came to the conclusion that this wasn't his or his teams fault, but simply happened even tho all safety precautions was taken. This has also happened to alot of other surgeons, but many of them just ain't gonna be honest about it, and that is even worse. Espically surgeons in Turkey and India. It's a part of this surgery that your're running a extremely low risk of dying and Dr G even points this out before surgery, not like many other crap surgeons who never openly talks about potiential complications and the risk here of.
Good luck finding a surgeon with more experience, who is more honest and is taking more precautions by doing things in a certain way to avoid complications, for a better more reasonable price than dr Giotikas in Europe. It ain't gonna happen at least for now...
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I have researched the surgery for about a 1 year now, before I made this account, and what I came to discover was the last part of the comment. Whatever you choose avoid going to turkey and India! So many terrible outcomes and cases, it's like gambling with your legs. Don't believe me then read the multiple diarys from turkey on this forum. You can also find them in the links I provided.
Good post, thank you. Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for linking the interview below, I'll give that a watch through.
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