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Saif Ali Khan was repeatedly stabbed by Bangladesh national Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir at his Bandra home on January 16.
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan returned his Bandra home amid tight security. (Image/ANI)
Saif Ali Khan returned to his Bandra home, Satguru Sharan, on January 21 after being discharged from Lilavati Hospital. He had been treated for multiple stab wounds caused by an intruder who broke into his house on January 16 at around 2 am. As the actor ditched a wheelchair and walked inside his Bandra home just five days after the incident, people started doubting if he really had spine surgery.
Amid this, a Bengaluru-based cardiologist, Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy, offered an explanation for the actor’s speedy recovery.
In a series of posts on X (formerly known as Twitter), Dr Krishnamurthy wrote, “For people doubting if Saif Ali Khan really had a spine surgery (funnily even some doctors!).” Alongside, he shared a video of his mother walking with a fractured foot in a cast, just hours after undergoing spine surgery for a fractured bone in her spine. He revealed that his mother was discharged from the hospital the next day.
“This is a video of my mother from 2022 at the age of 78y, walking with a fractured foot in a cast and a spine surgery on the same evening when spine surgery was done. A younger fit person can recover even faster.
For doctors who are doubting Saif’s recovery… all I want to tell you is to get better exposure,” he added.
For people doubting if Saif Ali Khan really had a spine surgery (funnily even some doctors!). This is a video of my mother from 2022 at the age of 78y, walking with a fractured foot in a cast and a spine surgery on the same evening when spine surgery was done. #WithTwitter. A… pic.twitter.com/VF2DoopTNL— Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy (@DrDeepakKrishn1) January 22, 2025
Dr Krishnamurthy then explained that the actor only had a leak and a tear: “What Saif had was only a cerebrospinal fluid leak and a tear in dura mater [a thick membrane that protects the brain and spinal cord]which was repaired.”
He further said, “Nowadays, people who have had cardiac bypass surgeries walk and climb stairs on 3rd 4th day! Please educate yourselves about things before coming on social media and proudly displaying your ignorance! Talk to experts, read up and learn.”
Dr Amit Thadhani, who is a surgeon, also commented on the actor’s remarkable recovery. “Saw the video of Saif walking out of hospital in good condition. That’s the beauty of modern medicine,” he wrote on X.
He explained, “Dural puncture with CSF leak – close the defect, remove drain in 2-3 days and discharge. Nowadays, major spine surgery itself has become a one day stay with no bed rest needed.”
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“Most likely exploration of the neck wound would have been negative for major injury with only suturing needed, no stay required for that too. Neck dressing is visible on the video. I don’t see anything fishy as far as treatment is concerned,” Dr Thadhani further said.
While responding to one of the comments on his posts, Dr Thadhani explained, “My guess is he was stabbed in the back while he was trying to hold the attacker off. Hence, most likely it’s gone obliquely paraspinal where there is a lot of muscle that can cause the blade to break off without penetrating into the spinal canal. Had he been stabbed in the back upfront, it would have gone dead straight, hit the bone and stopped, or in worst case gone through or next to the disc into the spinal cord.”
