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Mr Rohit Shetty

Mr Rohit Shetty

Specialist Spine Unit

Trauma & orthopaedic surgery 05205211

 

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Overview
Fee assured
Not in Open Referral network

Specialises in

  • Spine

Offers

  • Face-to-face consultations
  • Video and telephone consultations

About me

Mr. Rohit Shetty is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in complex spinal surgery. He currently works as a consultant spinal surgeon at the Whittington Hospital in north London. He is part of the Specialist Spine Unit.

He graduated from Manipal University in India in 1995 where he also took his masters in (and won the Gold Medal for) Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in 1997, before obtaining his Diplomate of National Board in Trauma and Orthopaedics from the National Board of Examinations in 1999.

He undertook specialist trauma and orthopaedic surgical training within the South East Thames (Guys and St. Thomas’) rotation in London from 2002. During this period, he also completed a Diploma in Trauma and Orthopaedics from the University of Brighton, where he was awarded a distinction for Best Outgoing Student in 2006. He gained his FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2007.

He is fellowship trained in all aspects of spinal surgery, having completed two UK fellowships (at the Royal Berkshire in Reading and the Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham) and one international fellowship (at Inselspital in Bern and the Swiss Olympic Medical Centre at the Schulthess Klinik in Zurich, Switzerland).

Mr. Shetty’s specialisation includes the conservative and surgical management of:

∞ Adult degenerative neck conditions and low back pain
∞ Adult deformity and spinal infections
∞ Minimally invasive spine surgery
∞ Multidisciplinary back pain management
∞ Acute spinal conditions e.g. disc prolapse, sciatica, neck pain

His main subspecialty area of interest is adult reconstructive deformity.

Professional memberships

∞ British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS)
∞ Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Executive positions

Secretary, United Kingdom Surgical Society Board (UKSSB)
Ex-Education Lead, British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS)
Ex-London regional representative, British Spine Registry steering group

Areas of interest

back pain; Multidisciplinary back pain management; Sciatica; Lower back pain; neck pain; Disc prolapse in lumbar spine; Disc prolapse in cervical spine; Spinal injections; Vertebroplasty; Adult spinal deformity; Degenerative spinal conditions; Minimally invasive spine surgery; Scoliosis; Spinal infections; slipped disc; disc herniation; lumbago; keyhole spinal surgery; spondylosis; complex spinal surgery; revision spinal surgery; Degenerative disc disease; low back pain; Osteoporosis; back injection;

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Procedures completed

  • 20365

    Follow-up out-patient consultation - remote - (5-50)

  • A5745

    Medial branch block injection(s) +/- image guidance (including bilateral) LUMBAR - (5-50)

  • A5755

    Nerve Root Block +/- Image Guidance (including Bilateral) LUMBAR - (5-50)

  • A5211

    Epidural injection (caudal) - (5-50)

  • 20355

    Initial out-patient consultation - remote - (1-5)

  • V2540

    Posterior excision of disc prolapse (including microdiscectomy +/- decompression) - lumbar region (1 or 2 levels) - (1-5)

  • V3340

    Primary anterior discectomy, decompression and anterior fusion +/- instrumentation - lumbar region (1 or 2 levels) including spinal cord monitoring - (1-5)

  • V3721

    Posterior fusion +/- instrumentation - cervical region (3 or more levels) including spinal cord monitoring - (1-5)

  • A5754

    Nerve Root Block +/- Image Guidance (including Bilateral) THORACIC - (1-5)

  • V3362

    Primary posterior fusion with instrumentation +/- decompression +/- discectomy (including Graf stabilisation and all fusion approaches) (lumbar region) including spinal cord monitoring - (1-5)

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