Novosibirsk State Regional Clinical Hospital

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2025: Payment of 2.5 million rubles in court to a patient whose leg was shortened after installing an endoprosthesis

In mid-June 2025, it became known that the court ordered the State Budgetary Health Institution of the Novosibirsk Region (GBUZ NSO) "Novosibirsk State Regional Clinical Hospital" to pay 2.5 million rubles as compensation to a woman for an unsuccessful operation. The patient's legs after the procedure became different lengths.

According to the publication "Precedent," in 2021, a woman whose name is not disclosed, doctors of the City Clinical Hospital No. 25 were diagnosed with "deforming arthrosis of the hip joints." For further examination, she was sent to the NIITO named after Tsivyan, where experts issued a conclusion on right-sided idiopathic coxarthrosis stage 3. Doctors recommended the implantation of an endoprosthesis of the hip joint, but it was not possible to carry out the procedure at the NIITO itself. As a result, in March 2022, implantation was carried out at the Novosibirsk State Regional Clinical Hospital.

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However, after the operation, the woman's condition did not improve. She continued to experience pain, and then could not walk without a cane and do the usual work around the house due to the limited mobility of the joint. In June 2023, the patient filed complaints with NIITO. According to the results of the examination, she was diagnosed with "malposition (incorrect installation of prosthesis components) of the femoral component of the endoprosthesis on the right side": while one leg became 2 cm shorter than the other.

The woman appealed to the court with a demand for compensation. In the conclusion of experts of the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University. Professor V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky, who was involved in an independent examination by the Kirovsky District Court of Novosibirsk, it is said that "technical defects" were made during the operation. On this basis, the court ordered GBUZ NSO "Novosibirsk State Regional Clinical Hospital" to pay 2.5 million rubles. The medical institution announced its intention to appeal.^[1]

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