City woman, 107, is oldest to get hip replacement
A 107-year-old Delhi woman may have become the world’s oldest patient to have a partial hip replacement, and hopes to be walking again within a fortnight.
Lily Wauters, a 101-year-old British woman is recorded by the Guinness World Records as the oldest person to have a total hip replacement in 2007 when she was 101 years and 196 days old.
Vidyavati Chopra, of Delhi’s Bengali Market, underwent a partial hip replacement surgery three days ago and is possibly the oldest person to have such a procedure.
Vidyavati, who may be among the few lucky ones still alive to have seen the trio of Bhagat Singh, Sukhbir and Rajguru in prison, had met with a freakish accident and had fractured her hip this week leaving her family worried about the option of surgery because of her age.
But she was readily willing to go under the surgeon’s scalpel which was an assuring sign for Dr M.K. Magazine, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Primus Ortho and Spine Hospital, who convinced the family.
Dr Magazine, who has been treating Chopra family for over 25 years, said that she told him that she wants to be on her feet as soon as possible.
“It is common for people in 80s and 90s to get partial hip replacement surgery done. I have even treated a 104-year-old patient through this procedure. Hip fractures are quite common in this age-group but it was actually the grit of Vidyavati Chopra which makes her stand-out,” Dr Magazine said.
The surgery was nearly an hour long affair for the team of surgeons led by Dr Magazine.
“We have replaced the fractured bone with an artificial one made of steel using special bone cement as her bones are too fragile to take the load of screws. She will be discharged by Monday or Tuesday,” he said. —PTI
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