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98% Success rate of heart operations in National Guard Health The King Abdulaziz Center for Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in the first half of this year conducted about 500 heart operations, 2,200 diagnostic catheters and 250 interventional catheters. Dr. Hani Najm, head of the cardiac surgery department at the King Abdulaziz Center for Cardiac Diseases and Surgery in the King Abdulaziz Medical City in the National Guard, said that the success of children and adults’s heart surgeries exceeds 98%, and that these results are difficult to achieve in many heart centers around the world. Indicating that what is proud of the cardiology department in the city is to maintain the global level of results.
Dr. Najm added that the King Abdulaziz Center is a reference for complex and difficult operations as well as difficult cases, indicating that the supervising results of the operations came with the grace of God, then the presence of an integrated medical staff, with the vigorous support of officials in the health affairs of the National Guard. Dr. Hani explained that a fourth catheterization laboratory has been increased in the center to cope with the pressure on the center, in addition to that a huge expansion of the Heart Center is currently underway by constructing a building next to the current building which contains outpatient clinics, a cardiac rehabilitation center on the ground floor, and hospital beds on the first and second floors. . Dr. Hani Najm stated that the opening of this center will have the capacity of the center nearly doubling to reach 130 beds designated only for heart patients, indicating that this expansion will be opened simultaneously with the nineteenth meeting of the Saudi Heart Association in February 2008. Establishing a special expansion for non-invasive heart diagnostics, such as CT and magnetic scans, to increase the need for this type of diagnosis, and it is now considered one of the primary steps in diagnosing heart diseases, as well as the development in patient care. There is interest in academic and research.
Dr. Hani Negm participated in scientific research in the field of pediatric cardiac surgery and presented it at a conference in Washington recently, in addition to numerous participations in Arab and European scientific forums. It is noteworthy that the King Abdulaziz Center for Cardiac Diseases and Surgery accepts all heart cases for Saudis, based on an order from the High Commissioner, as well as heart patients residing through the business center.
