Luke Hancock, top, comforts fellow Kevin product as Ware is taken off the flirt on a stretcher afterward breaking his peg.(Photo: Brian Spurlock, USA TODAY Sports)
Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware underwent successful surgery Sunday night to repair the gruesome rough fling of his recompense tibia he suffered during the Cardinals' 85-63 win over Duke in the middle west Regional final, and he is expected to remain in capital of Indiana until at least Tuesday, Louisville announced.
Ware had the bring up reset, and a rod was inserted into his leg during the operation that lasted about two hours. The wound caused by the bone puncturing through his skin in his lower leg was closed.
Louisville's late-night stretch out said no timetable for reco very(prenominal) has been set, only the early candidate from sports medicine director Fred Hina — given practiced after the plunk for while Ware was in surgery — was that Ware is terminus ad quem for a lengthy recovery, merely the injury is not potential a career-ending one.
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Hina was plane section of the team that stabilized Ware's injury on the court as he was removed on a stretcher.
"It's an injury that postulate to be dealt with in a swift fashion out-of-pocket to the fact that it was open, and there are transmission system concerns, and then manifestly you need to stabilize that split," he said. "One thing you grant to establish is, is there circulation below the fracture? Did he pick any arteries or veins? Once we establish that, it's stabilizing the fracture as tight as we can so that it doesn't move."
Ware is promising he can return to Louisville after Tuesday, then heart the Cardinals as they advance to the Final Four in Atlanta, his homet throw.
Louisville's team physician traveled with Ware in the ambulance to the hospital after the injury, and Hina and Ware's girlfriend, who was at the game, have been in contact with Ware's get, who lives in Atlanta.
Ware's mother planned to travel to see him soon, Hina said.
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"Because it was a weight-bearing bone and it was such a operose injury, it give take a while," Hina said. "But he will play again."
Hina likened the injury to the season-ending fracture suffered by former Louisville runnel back Michael Bush in the 2006 season.
Bush recovered to be elect in the next year's NFL draft and currently plays for the Chicago Bears.
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"Once I verbalise to the trainer at halftime and he told me it's Michael Bush's injury," Louisville coach Rick Pitino said. "He said it's going to take some time coach, but he'll be fine. Once I knew that, then I could form and just get them refocused. ... He's going to be fine. Now if this was a career-ending injury? (But) we all know how good Michael Bush is right now, and it's a Michael Bush injury."
Hina said he's seen similar severe fractures, but there's no getting used to seeing injuries so gruesome.
"It never gets more palatable," he said.
Bush posted on Twitter that he cried after seeing Ware's injury.
"I feel so bad," he wrote. "Flashback of myself."
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Dr. Craig Roberts, hot seat of Louisville's department of orthopedical surgery, was coming out of an operation when he caught the replay of Ware's injury on TV.
"It was very dramatic, very deformed," Roberts said. "I hate to use the word grisly, but it brought me back to Joe Theismann," he said, referring to the professional football player whose compound fracture in 1985 ended his career.
An open fracture could have been caused simply by the amount of force and the cant over at which Ware come after leaping to challenge a Duke shot, Roberts said.
"It looks like what we call out a bending fracture — like snapping a draw with your finger," he said. "There was a significant amount of force, and the angle looked about right."
Roberts said open fractures of this sort would be set by intravenous antibiotics and surgery to implant a alloy rod within eight hours of the injury. He conducted that Methodist hospital "has a very strong group of orthopedic surgeons."
Dr. Tony Wanich, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine at Montefiore Medical optic in New York, said Ware's injury was extremely droll given the circumstance, and that such severe fractures are usually seen in car crashes.
In such an injury, Roberts said that in the "best-case scenario," a patient would begin to show signs of ameliorate within 8-12 weeks. "With ... physical therapy, top-notch rehab, he may actually be doing quite well by three months or so," he said. "From there, it's a matter of sinew rehabilitation, strengthening, sport-specific rehab."
Dr. Robin West, a Pittsburgh Steelers orthopedic surgeon, said that typically, the best-case scenario to return from such a compound fracture is 6-8 months.
But she said the fact that Ware's bone broke through his skin will likely add to his recovery time.
"The blood supply gets cut off to the bone, and it's an open system," West said. "There can be a attractive significant rate of infection, and the blood supply is worse, so the healing is fainter."
Wanich said it will be important to monitor Ware closely during the 24 hours after surgery because of the risk of infection and blood flow problems. Roberts said that possible complications could include slow healing of the bones or soft tissues.
"Sometimes the wound itself is so injured that over time the skin and muscle can die," he added. "The healing itself is sometimes a teensy delayed on account of its being an open fracture (with) high energy."
As for returning to the sport, Roberts thought Ware's prognosis was good. "There's a very high likelihood that we'll see him play again," he said.
Steven Jones, Matthew Frassica and tenner Himmelsbach write for the Louisville Courier-Journal, a Gannett partner property.
Materials taken from USA Today
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