Confirming its successes in conducting rare surgeries, the Crown Prince orders the treatment of a child with a tumor in the brain stem at King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh - Ahmed Al-Houtan: Under the direction of His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation and the Inspector General, a medical team succeeded in the city King Fahd Medical recently performed a rare operation for an 11-year-old child with a tumor in the brain stem, which caused difficulty in swallowing, movement and balance, and the operation took about 18 hours and was successful without complications, praise be to God, and this case is considered one of the difficult cases that needs a medical team Specialist and use of advanced and modern devices to conduct the operation.
His Highness the Crown Prince had directed that the operation be carried out for the patient in the city, and a medical team was formed for this, headed by Dr. Abdul Rahman Sabbagh, Consultant Pediatric Neurosurgery, Dr. Ayman Al-Bunyan, Consultant Pediatric Neurosurgery, Dr. Yousef Barikhan, Assistant Consultant Neurosurgery, Dr. Majid Al-Dossary, resident physician, Dr. Shobet Senha, Consultant Neurophysiology, Consultant Professor Muhammad Al-Takrouri, Dr. Radwan from the anesthesia team and Dr. Lahbib Swalmi is a consultant neuronavigation specialist with a rare specialty in the world and the only one in Asia and the Middle East.
Dr. Al-Sabbagh said that the first stage of the operation was withdrawn fluid from inside the tumor using a neuromonitoring device "STEALTH" to relieve pressure on the brain stem, during which the child''s movement, swallowing and smooth speech improved after this operation, and the second stage was the removal of the tumor under neuromonitoring and magnetic resonance imaging. With intraoperative neuronavigation in the "BRAIN SUITE" device, where the tumor was completely removed thanks to God Almighty, and the patient stayed in intensive care for two days under the supervision of Dr. Sawsan Youssef and Dr. Muhammad Samaha, and 10 days in the neurology ward before his discharge from the hospital, and he is currently rehabilitated in the clinics of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and swallowing in the Rehabilitation Hospital in King Fahd Medical City.
This was stated by the Executive Director General of King Fahd Medical City, Dr. Abdullah bin Sulaiman Al-Amro, who congratulated His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz on the success of this process because of his keenness to reach the Kingdom to the world in the health services provided, and also explained that this success is considered a global medical achievement that will be added to the balance of the global medical achievements that the Kingdom has achieved. He thanked the medical team supervising the case on the success of the operation, explaining that their work as a team is the reason for success after God’s success. Al-Amro explained that it was expected that 5 operations per year of this type would be performed in the Kingdom, but that the Medical City received requests from outside the Kingdom for such a case, wanting to conduct the operation at King Fahd Medical City due to the presence of specialization and the availability of the latest capabilities in it. Dr. It is noteworthy that the succession of these achievements comes in light of the support received by health services in the Kingdom and the King Fahd Medical City, especially from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and His Highness the Crown Prince, and this achievement will be added to the achievements of King Fahd Medical City.
For his part, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Yamani, Director of the Neuroscience Center at King Fahd Medical City, explained that the equipment and specialized team located in King Fahd City for brain and spinal cord tumor surgery in this integrated form is rare at the global level, so the "BRAIN SUITE" is the fifth in the world and the city team is the first Who used neuromonitoring with magnetic resonance imaging globally, with the hope that the Neuroscience Center in the Medical City will be one of the best centers in the world in light of the support and attention it enjoys.
