optical technology, at King Abdullah Medical City
A specialized medical team from the Center for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy at King Abdullah Medical City in the Holy Capital succeeded in conducting a microscopic process for advanced gallbladder channels using the technique of (spay glass with laser lithotripsy), which is a thin endoscope of optical fibers for a patient in the sixth decade who was suffering from Obstruction of the bile ducts due to large stones, as it is one of the latest medical technologies in the world.
In the details, a case was received for a sixty patient from a hospital in the region through a referral program where he was diagnosed with a blockage of the bile ducts caused by large gallstones inside the left hepatic lobe, where the medical team immediately performed laboratory analyzes, CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging, which in turn She confirmed the correctness of the diagnosis and the exact location of the stones.
The medical team led by a consultant of digestive and liver diseases and interventional endoscopes Dr. Muhammad Saeed Khan and his integrative team in coordination with the anesthesia team prepared the case for the operating room as this process is the first of its kind in the western region of the hospitals of the Ministry of Health, using a thin optical fiber endoscope inside the endoscope Conventional and passage to the bile ducts inside the liver without surgery and then locate the blockage of the bile ducts and see the large stones and split them using direct focused laser beams and they were taken out consecutively as this process, which lasted 3 hours, culminated in the grace of God and from him successfully and the patient recovered from the hospital to His house the next day.
Dr. Muhammad Khan said that this client is one of the very modern operations in the world, as it is characterized by the lack of the usual surgical incision and speeds up the hospitalization and early hospitalization process, as well as the suitability of elderly patients and finally the fit of patients who are not surgically compatible or have a high risk of anesthesia.
