Can you tell me what was the major complication he got there?
Craig had his femurs lengthened by 6 cm using monorails in Lebanon and the doctor did a really poor job and left him with complications, I believe his femurs snapped. He went to Dr Mirzoyan in Armenia to get the bowing in his left femur corrected and his tibiae lengthened.
Mirzoyan never did a full CAT scan on Craig and he ended up with x-legs because of Mirzoyan screwing up the femur correction. He first incorrectly told Craig that 2 months would be enough time for his femurs to heal, which turned out to not be the case because after 10 weeks he removed some pins to increase the load on the femur, which caused Craig's left femur to crack. Mirzoyan told him to keep waiting, but then his femur cracked again and also bowed once more. He then told Craig that if he bends his knees after frame removal, the bone could break, something he didn't tell him beforehand. Craig wasn't happy with the bowing, rightfully so, and asked Dr Mirzoyan to switch the fixator from the half circle to a unilateral fixator and correct the bowing. Mirzoyan performed another surgery to switch the fixator, but then overcorrected the bowing so he still had a problem. Craig didn't want to have external fixation on his femur any longer after that point and asked Mirzoyan to put in a nail. Mirzoyan put in the wrong kind of nail and Craig's knees were pulled inward because of it, giving him a bad case of valgus (x-legs). Craig was charged an extra $5,000 by Mirzoyan to fix the problems he caused, which was on top of the $8,000 he charged for the initial surgery.
Afterward, Craig's right tibia had a length discrepancy and a bump on it as a complication of Mirzoyan doing the double cut method on his tibiae. His doctor in Saudi Arabia said he should remove the nail in his femur, but the doc was unable to so he asked Craig to ask Mirzoyan what kind of nail he put in there. Mirzoyan replied that he put a nail called a Synthes 10/40 inside, and even though Craig contacted docs to see if they can remove the nail, none knew where he could find a device to remove it because Mirzoyan put in a very old nail model. Craig contacted Dr Mirzoyan to ask what nail he used, and he told Craig that he uses a universal kit for nail removal, which he would send him for $3,600. Craig paid Mirzoyan for the kit, but his doctor in Saudi Arabia was still unable to remove the nail using the device Mirzoyan sent. Not only that, but the nail Mirzoyan put into Craig's femur was already broken before he inserted it (meaning no extractor could remove it) and it wasn't a Synthes nail like Mirzoyan said. Craig contacted Mirzoyan wanting an explanation and was completely ignored by the doctor. Craig ended up going to Dr Sarin in India to get the nail removed, and Sarin had to use a different kind of instrument to get it out. Turned out the nail was a Zimmer model and not a Synthes nail.
Craig said he never got an apology from Dr Mirzoyan, who was nice to him at first but then treated him badly after everything was paid for, and Mirzoyan even wrote to him saying that people thought he was crazy for badmouthing him. His doctor in Saudi Arabia ended up correcting his complications but Craig went through hell with multiple doctors. First the guy in Lebanon messed him up, then Mirzoyan in Armenia, and then when Craig went to get scar removal in India, Dr Chaudhary performed an Achilles tenotomy on him when he was under because he thought his achilles wasn't loose enough, without telling him prior that he was going to do that. Went back to Sarin to get that corrected too.
Last I read he seems to have recovered well enough, but goddamn he went through so much s***.
In addition to Craig's experience, things Dr Parihar told me reinforced my opinion that people shouldn't go to Dr Mirzoyan. Dr Parihar will absolutely not do cross-lateral lengthening for CLL, nor will he lengthen you with external femurs or perform the double-cut method - all things that Mirzoyan does. Dr Mirzoyan also claimed that inserting two wires into the bone canal speed up bone healing, but there haven't been any studies to back that up and the surgeons I spoke to told me that there's no evidence for that being true.
TL;DR - Skip Mirzoyan if you value your legs.
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Topic: Armenia, Yerevan, Dr. Arshak E. Mirzoyan (Read 6210 times)