In accordance with Kazinform, Kazakh docs have carried out the nation’s first surgical procedure to restore a cranium defect of a 14-year-old boy within the Zhambyl area, utilizing 3D printing, after he was rushed to the kids’s multi-field hospital in Taraz.
Half a yr in the past, the boy was handled with a decompressive craniectomy on the temporal area of the mind to lower intracranial strain following earlier acute purulent ailments and recurrent purulent meningitis that affected his mind construction. He additionally suffered from poisonous shock syndrome.
A decompressive craniectomy entails eradicating a part of the cranium bone. The neurosurgeons and resuscitators determined to make a personalised implant – which was 3D printed in an unspecified plastic (doubtless PEEK) in Germany – to restore the cranium defects and stop repeated traumas of the mind.
The surgical procedure reportedly went nicely, with the boy being in secure situation, now having been discharged from the hospital with no seen beauty impact.