Robotic knee replacement surgery will be launched last week in October
KARIMNAGAR, SEPTEMBER 12, 2025: Hybrid Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS), which is confined to the metropolitan cities, has been introduced at Renee Hospital in Karimnagar town.
Accordingly, senior Robotic and MICS cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Ravi Kumar has successfully conducted MICS on 15-year-old Ajay Kumar from Luxxettipet of Mancherial district.
Disclosing this to newsmen here on Friday, Renee Hospital’s chairman Dr Bangari Swamy, said that the patient was having a hole in the heart since birth and was suffering from breathlessness and was unable to do heavy work due to lung infections. However, the Renee hospital had conducted the costly MICS free of cost under the Rajiv Arogyasri health insurance scheme and helped the patient regained completely within three days after the surgery, he stated.
MICSs, as the name suggests, are less invasive when compared with conventional bypass surgeries. “This procedure lessens post-operative pain, ensures faster recovery and guarantees cosmetic outcomes expected by youngsters with heart ailments,” he said. Robotic cardiac surgeries help patients to return to normal lives and get back to work in two to three weeks as well as elderly patients for whom open heart surgeries are a ‘no’ due to other health problems.
Dr Swamy also announced that the Renee hospital would first hospital in Telangana state outside Hyderabad city to launch the Robotic knee replacement surgeries from the last week of October this year. He said that he was undergoing training for the last two months on robotic knee replacement surgeries and added that the hospital had decided to conduct knee replacement surgeries at a lesser cost when compared to Hyderabad city.
He said that they had decided to equip their hospital with the latest and state-of-the-art technology for the benefit of patients. Interventional Cardiologist Dr Tadimatla Dinakar, Pediatric heart expert Dr Raja Vijayender Reddy, medical superintendent Dr Ravindra Chary, hospital non-clinical director Aravind Babu, general manager Pawan Prasad and others were also present.
