and the success of the operation to return it to its place in the rib cage at King Abdulaziz University Hospital
The pediatric cardiac surgery team at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah has succeeded in returning a child''s heart to her chest, where she was born with an external heart.
In a rare birth that occurred for the first time in the Kingdom, a baby girl was born with her heart outside her rib cage, and she was transferred directly to the Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah, where the medical team supervising the case, headed by the Saudi Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Consultant, Dr. Othman Radi, and Consultant Pediatric Surgery Dr. Osama Al Rayes and Consultant Anesthesia, decided Cardiologist Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khatib performed an urgent surgery to restore the heart to its normal position in the rib cage.
Indeed, she had an operation to re her heart into the rib cage, and after the operation, the Saudi pediatric cardiac surgeon, Dr. Othman Radi, confirmed that the patient''s condition is stable, thank God, and her condition will be followed up until it stabilizes and then he will decide to leave to complete her life course, God willing.
