surgery
A medical team at Aseer Central Hospital, led by a consultant nose and sinus diseases, anterior endoscopic base of the skull surgeon Dr. Ali Al-Zarai, head of the Department of Neurosurgery Dr. Awad Al-Shehri, Dr. Abdullah Al-Hilali, and their assisting team, managed to perform a laparoscopic tumor removal surgery for the pituitary gland. For a Saudi patient who was suffering from severe back pain resulting from fractures in the back and severe osteoporosis, which made her lose the ability to walk.
A spokesman for Asir Saeed Al-Naqir explained that the patient was suffering from a benign tumor in the pituitary gland, which caused the secretion of a large amount of the adrenal stimulating hormone, to secrete the hormone cortisone at high rates, as her condition was diagnosed and surgery was performed in order to be able to walk again by resetting Hormones return to their normal level, as well as the level of blood sugar, and the level of blood pressure improves.
