who saves her from amputation
A 25-year-old Saudi girl was treated with a metal cable, in a method that is done for the first time in the Kingdom and by a medical staff specialized in this field.
The Saudi doctor who undertook this complex operation, Dr. Magdi Hashem, a consultant orthopedic and spine surgeon, said the story of this girl began, after she had a traffic accident that caused a double fracture of the leg, followed by several operations to stabilize the fracture, which caused complications and inflammation in the bone, where she was transferred to One of the large hospitals in the capital, Riyadh, and the necessary examinations were conducted, which showed the death and decay of 20 cm of the main shin bone (tibia) and to preserve the limb from amputation, as a result of the large loss, the technique of transferring and lengthening the internal bone was used using the metal cable that is installed on the “Lizarov” device. From the outside, he noted that this type of complex operation requires accurate calculations and periodic review, until the end of the treatment period, which, thanks to God, was crowned with success.
Hashem stressed that the national medical competencies and advanced equipment witnessed in the field of treating bone deformities and shortcomings, and advanced devices, have led to the evasion of the citizen''s need to travel abroad for treatment in such cases.
