normal speech and breathing

After three years of suffering, the child "Mohsen" was able to regain normal speech and breathing again, after the success of a complex surgery performed by a specialized medical team at Abha Maternity and Children Hospital. This operation is considered one of the qualitative operations performed for the first time in the region and lasted for 5 continuous hours. The official spokesman for Aseer Health, Abdulaziz bin Yahya Al Shaya, explained the details. Pointing out that the child is a four-year-old Mohsen, and that the story of his suffering began from birth, as he was suffering from severe difficulty breathing and lack of speech resulting from a tightness in the throat of the third degree extending from the vocal cords to the area under the vocal cords, with deformation in Cartilages of the larynx below the vocal cords, increase with age.

He added that the child arrived at Abha Hospital in a critical condition and severe lack of oxygen, as his condition was dealt with immediately by placing an emergency laryngeal incision and making a diagnostic endoscope in a timely manner, and a plan for surgical and medical treatment was developed for him, then the medical team at Abha Maternity and Children Hospital led by Dr. Hussein Atoudi is a consultant pediatric otolaryngologist and respiratory tract prostheses with his medical team. By performing 3 successive operations and the treatment period lasted for 8 months, including the process of restructuring and restoring the larynx and the trachea by implanting cartilage from the child''s rib, in order to expand the larynx and tracheal cavities and put a cartilage fixative stent, and ending with the last operation and making an exploratory endoscope, where the success of the operation was confirmed, and then Taking out the tube after completing the required period for the child to regain his ability to speak and breathe normally without the need for the tube.

It is worth noting that the process is one of the advanced operations, and it is carried out in a few and limited centers across the Kingdom.