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A medical team at Saad Specialist Hospital in Khobar headed by the Saudi Medical Doctor, Aisha Hajaj, a neurosurgery consultant, performed a rare interventional catheter - the first of its kind in the eastern region - of a Sudanese patient suffering from cystic dilation of the carotid artery at the bottom of the skull. Dr. Aisha Al-Hajjaj says that the Sudanese patient was suffering from permanent headaches, problems with the right eye movement, and frequent hospitals that confirmed that he had an expansion in one of the main arteries near the eye cavity, noting that the treating doctors advised him to go to Saad Hospital due to the presence of modern techniques to treat Arterial swelling by catheter.
Al-Hajjaj explained that the increased artery expansion cost the patient his eyesight if this artery exploded, noting that Saad Specialist Hospital bears the financial costs of the entire operation, as part of his campaign to treat those who are unable with rare diseases.
The pilgrims reported that the cystic expansion of the artery was in a very advanced stage, reaching 14 mm, so it affected the optic nerve, causing the patient''s right eye to bite, in addition to his permanent incessant headache. For the treatment of arterial expansion.
The Saad Neurosurgery consultant added that a two-day treatment plan had been put in place, which started by placing an expanded artery balloon to test it, and on the second day the catheter was done after the patient was fully anesthetized.
It showed that props were placed to cover the depth of the expansion, followed by filling the artery with metal spirals, ending with closing the cystic expansion, preventing the blood flow to it. Dr. Aisha Al-Hajjaj indicated that the operation was very successful, as the patient''s condition improved very quickly, as did the chronic headache that he was suffering from, as well as the danger of an expanding artery that may cause blindness.
Dr. Aisha Al-Hajjaj justified the medical team’s use of the catheter that the patient’s condition was rare, and the traditional surgical intervention is not suitable, as the stretched artery was very close to the optic nerve, which threatens to cause blindness in the event of surgical intervention.
She stressed that the complications caused by the catheter are much less than the traditional surgery. In diagnostic catheters, the complication rate is 1 in every 600 cases, and in the therapeutic catheter it is 5 percent, and the hospitalization period of the patient is much less when resorting to the catheter.
And the Saad Neurosurgery Consultant at Saad Hospital warned against neglecting some traditional symptoms such as sudden and severe headaches, or blurring of the eye, especially if the patient''s family history has some sudden death cases, warning of the need to do radiation and examinations to find out the main cause of these symptoms and then treat them.
