A Saudi medical team at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah managed to conduct an operation described as rare in the Arab world for Hatem, who fell from a height of nine meters, which led to his fracture of the spine and paraplegia. In the details, Dr. Khaled Jamjoom and Dr. Mahdi Busi decided, after seeing the x-rays, to perform several operations in the spine in the parts of the first lumbar vertebrae to the fifth and back from the ninth to twelfth, due to the difficulty of the fracture and paraplegia that occurred to the young man, which caused the rupture of a cyst. The mother of the meninges and the exit of nerves from the spinal cord.
In the first operation, which lasted 16 hours, Dr. Mahdi Busi and Dr. Khaled Jamjoum restored the spinal cord. The cut was 15 cm long and stabilized the vertebrae.
After the success of the first operation, the young man felt an improvement, but because of the severe pressure on the vertebrae, Dr. Mahdi Busi performed another support operation for the vertebra in two stages, the first from the back, by extending the fixation and placing hooks at the top of the fixation, and it took about 12 hours, and after that I performed the second part of The operation took six hours.
Dr. Busi indicated that the young man began walking and standing while continuing the rehabilitation treatment.
He added, “This operation is considered a precedent of its kind at the level of the Middle East, where we used delicate surgeries to remove the compressive vertebra from the front and put a metal cage fixed in an opening that does not exceed five centimeters. Given the situation, the percentage of the young man’s ability to stand and walk was very small, but the ability of God His care helped to overcome the difficulties and the young man''s ability to stand and walk six months after the accident.
