Percutaneous Triple release for the management of moderate Idiopathic Clubfoot

Dr. Manish Singh Rajpoot; Dr. H.S. Varma; Dr. Digember Peepra; Dr. Krishna Kumar Pandey

Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2016

Percutaneous Triple release for the management of moderate Idiopathic Clubfoot

Dr. Manish Singh Rajpoot, Dr. H. S. Varma, Dr. Digember Peepra, Dr. Krishna Kumar Pandey

Abstract :

Background:– Idiopathic clubfoot can be managed by the technique described by Ponseti in infants which require a lot of passion and compliance of the patients. On the other hand, described surgery for congenital clubfoot has its complications. We used a different midway technique of percutaneous triple release for the management of moderate clubfoot. Material and methods:– In 22 children(12 unilateral and 10 bilateral), total 32 clubfoot were there with moderate type of deformity, were treated with this procedure. Assessment of results was done by comp� preoperative and 3 weeks postoperative Pirani scores. Results and Conclusion:– Our results were excellent in 12.5% cases, good in 87.5% and fair in 12.5 % cases. None of our cases had any intra–op and post–op complication. This triple releases technique is a simple and having easy learning curve by which we can treat moderate type of clubfoot in less time and cost with good to excellent outcome.