Saudi doctors succeed in the first installation of an aortic valve by catheter, Dr. Muhammad Belghith Al-Barqi, a Saudi medical team headed by a consultant of cardiology and cardiac catheterization in King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard in Riyadh, Dr. Muhammad Balghith Al-Barqi, succeeded in implanting a valve for a Saudi patient in his seventies who was suffering from Aortic valve stenosis in a process that was directly transferred to attendees at the Saudi Cardiac Catheterization Association Conference that was held in Dammam under the patronage of His Highness, the Prince of the Eastern Province.
Dr. Al-Barqi said that this operation is considered the first operation to install the aortic valve via catheter, and it was transferred directly from the place of the operation in the King Abdulaziz Medical City at the Ministry of National Guard in Riyadh to the meeting in the conference of the Saudi Cardiac Catheterization Society in Dammam, in the presence of the President and members of the American Cardiac Catheterization Society, Professor Charles Chemer and a group of catheterists in the world, as well as cardiologists from the Kingdom, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the sisterly Arab countries.
He indicated that the operation took one hour for an elderly Saudi in his seventies who was suffering from aortic valve stenosis, and he was transferred from King Abdulaziz Hospital for the National Guard in Al-Ahsa to the King Abdulaziz Medical City in the Ministry of National Guard in Riyadh, where the operation was carried out and achieved great success with the testimony of the attendance of the conference and those in charge of it.
