Dr. Parihar- Warning Sign Of Bad Patient Outcomes

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I started a thread earlier this year about all the negatives I saw with Dr. Guichet. That thread turned out to be more correct than I ever anticipated thanks to Unicorn888 documenting her unimaginable nightmare experience with Dr. Guichet.

I'm sad to say that i'm staring to get the same impression about Dr. Parihar for different reasons. Dr. Parihar is incredibly affordable for limb lengthening, but his patient outcomes on this forum are not impressive in the least. In fact, I look at his patient outcomes as a major warning sign.

KiloKAHN- External fixator only tibia lengthening with Dr. Parihar in India. Years later developed a serious case of CECS, needed surgery performed in the United States.

Penguinn- Internal PRECICE femur lengthening with Dr. Parihar in India. Surgery took nearly 10 hours, normally a 2.5-3 hour surgery. Severely delayed recovery time. Incredibly slow bone consolidation. Non union risk seems very high.

We all want limb lengthening to be more affordable, but with these patient outcomes i'm now highly skeptical about Dr. Parihar...

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Quote from: KiloKAHN on November 08, 2017, 05:36:27 PMCECS is a risk for anyone undergoing leg lengthening, because when lengthening the bone you are still stretching the soft tissues and making the muscles work harder than they normally would have. It doesn't have to do with a doctor's surgical technique and can spring up on any patient.

As for Penguinn, only he can update with how he is doing now. But the case of his surgery taking longer than usual is due to one of the Precice nails sent by Ellipse being faulty out of the box.

Neither situation has to do with fault of the surgeon.

Useful Dude didn't really say much about his experience in his initial posts, so determining that his silence is the result of something catastrophic is jumping the gun.

I seriously doubt that patients of Dr. Paley or Dr. Rozbruch develop CECS after lengthening. In fact, Dr. Paley describes the sometimes necessary "release" of muscle tension during surgery to prevent this very problem. Meaning, the surgeon has to recognize the higher risks of some of his patients developing compartment syndrome during evaluation or during surgery. He talks about this right on his website. Saying it's not the surgical technique is letting Dr. Parihar off the hook way too easily.

Same goes for Penguinn's 10 hour surgery. Just because a nail malfunctions does not mean the length of surgery increases by 7 hours! Come on, that's absurd when the total time to implant 2 nails is about 2.5 hours. We all know Dr. Parihar has little to no experience with surgery for internal nail femur lengthening. What happened was he came across a problem with Penguinn during surgery, and it took him way too long to figure out how to fix it because he has no experience. BTW, being under anesthesia that long, when it's not originally planned for, is very dangerous. This is all on top of Penguinn's incredibly slow recovery, slow bone consolidation, and high risk of non union. If Penguinn were to post any kind of timeline videos showing his recovery, or a progression of his x-rays month by month, everyone would see exactly what i'm talking about, but he refuses when asked.

Useful Dude abruptly stopped posting for no reason. That in itself is not always a major red flag. However, combined with these other warning signs, it is another reason to be highly skeptical of Dr. Parihar.