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A medical team at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center - Jeddah succeeded in transplanting the lungs of a young man and an elderly person who were completely failing in their lungs function. The hospital stated, in a statement distributed to the media yesterday, that the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation provided the lungs for the young man and the elderly after placing their names on the list of urgently needy people, as it was transferred from brain dead to them.
The operation was performed by a medical team consisting of: Consultant Thoracic and Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Iskandar Al-Guthmi, Consultant Chest and Lung Transplant Dr. Salem Al-Fifi, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon Ghassan Basleem and Head of the Anesthesiology Department Dr. Muhammad Al-Harbi
The two operations were performed for the young man (27 years) and the elderly (58 years) after they were in a poor health condition, but after lung transplantation and signs of their body acceptance of the transplantation, signs of success appeared and the two cases were stabilized.
Dr. Salem Al-Fifi stated that the two patients can return to their normal lives after the completion of the treatment program, calling for spreading the culture of organ donation to save the lives of many whose lives stop when the need for a disrupted organ in the body.
It is noteworthy that the operation is the ninth in the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah, and was led by a team of Saudi professional medical personnel, after these operations had been conducted for a long time outside the Kingdom in American and Canadian medical centers.
