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Limb Lengthening Surgery => Limb Lengthening Discussions => Topic started by: user_name on January 04, 2025, 04:59:00 PM

Title: fear of losing eyesight
Post by: user_name on January 04, 2025, 04:59:00 PM
there have been some anecdotes of patients here and on a chat server where patients after surgery got vision problems after surgery. even though it probably got resolved later, it is still worrying that vision can get affected by this procedure.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23995-fat-embolism-syndrome lists "vision problems" as one of the complications

so it looks like fat embolism can cause vision problems by either causing cerebral fat embolism. One patient on a chat server who went to Dr birktholtz said he got "roth spots" after surgery. A couple of patients who went to Dr debiparshad have also said the same thing.

What are the chances of this happening after intramedullary nailing?
Title: Re: fear of losing eyesight
Post by: GrowGrow123 on January 04, 2025, 08:20:17 PM
It seems like a rather rare complication. Anecdotally, I've only really heard of one person getting this issue.
Title: Re: fear of losing eyesight
Post by: user_name on January 04, 2025, 08:26:36 PM
where have you heard this and what happened?
Title: Re: fear of losing eyesight
Post by: Heightmaxxer on January 05, 2025, 03:04:43 PM
Pretty rare man , mostly embolism kills people not make them blind
 What kind of a surgeon is DebiPrasad? never heard of him before
Title: Re: fear of losing eyesight
Post by: limbino on January 05, 2025, 05:56:04 PM
One patient on a chat server who went to Dr birktholtz said he got "roth spots" after surgery.
Oh, It's very sad to hear. Can you please share with a link to this post, I am planning to have surgery with this doctor and would like to know more about possible complications
Title: Re: fear of losing eyesight
Post by: user_name on January 05, 2025, 07:26:28 PM
if you know about the chat website that starts with "disc"  there is a server run by cyborg for life. I cannot paste the link here because this site does not allow it.

on that server there is a diary of a guy called "dirty". he had these vision problems for weeks after surgery.