Riyadh specialist succeeds in transplanting a lung for a patient suffering from cirrhosis A medical team at the Specialty Hospital in Riyadh managed to perform a lung transplant for a Saudi patient who suffers from severe fibrosis in the lungs and failed in the respiratory system functions. This operation is a Saudi team consisting of Dr. Khaled Al-Qattan, Dr. Walid Saleh, Dr. Ahmed Bamousi, Dr. Saleh Al-Damas, and the program coordinator Ismat Mahmoud.
Dr. Saleh Al-Damas, head of the lung transplantation program, explained that this is the eleventh operation carried out by the team, as he performed the first successful operation to transplant lungs in the Middle East and Africa for a Saudi patient in 1998 and he is still in excellent health 11 years after the operation .. The team also performed The first successful operation to transplant one lung for a Saudi patient in 2003 and the first successful operation to transplant one lung and two lungs simultaneously for one patient in 2004, all of whom are in excellent health.
Al-Damas extended his thanks to the families of the donor, asking God for his mercy and forgiveness, to Dr. Fahd Al-Abduljabbar, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and to Dr. Qassem Al-Qasabi, Executive Director for their support of the program, as well as to the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation and King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam.
