second operation of its kind in the world to implant a heart valve
Yesterday morning, a medical team at King Abdulaziz University Hospital succeeded in performing a heart valve implantation operation, the second of its kind in the world in the field of open heart surgeries, as it was previously performed at Kon Kok University in Seoul, South Korea, by Dr. Mi Yeon Sung. .
The operation was performed by Dr. Iskandar Sulaiman Al-Guthmi, consultant cardiothoracic surgery and lung transplantation in the hospital and a member of the faculty at the University of Medicine, with the participation of the hospital''s medical team.
Dr. Al-Quthami explained that the procedure, which took about four hours, is considered a new and global innovation in this field, which in turn opens up broad and future horizons for scientific research in heart surgeries based on medical evidence.
He pointed out that the patient who was undergoing the operation was one year old and had severe inflammation and thrombosis of the aortic heart valve with severe blood backflow, which led to his injury to a stroke in the brain artery with paralysis on the right side of the body and inability to speak, pointing out that he was ed The hospital performed the necessary checks, and then the operation was performed.
