unique and advanced heart operations
The medical team at the Department of Cardiac Sciences and Research at the Armed Forces Hospital in Al-Hada managed to achieve a unique achievement in the Middle East by implanting a pivotal heart pump called (Impila 5), which in turn fully supports heart functions through catheterization, which gives positive results for saving heart failure patients. from death.
This was explained by the Director of the Department of Armed Forces Hospitals in the Taif region, Major General Doctor Hamid bin Ali Al-Ghamdi, stressing that the success of this type of operation comes as a realization of the comprehensive medical renaissance witnessed by the Armed Forces hospitals at all levels, with unlimited support from the generous leadership, in order to harness all possibilities human, medical and technical services to improve preventive and curative services, and by keeping pace with everything new in the health field, stressing that this achievement is the most prominent of its kind in the Middle East.
His Excellency Major General Al-Ghamdi added that this pump is one of the medical devices used in the temporary ventricular support device for cases with advanced heart failure, which all conventional and available methods have failed to treat.
For his part, the head of the cardiac program at the Armed Forces Hospital in Al-Hada, Dr. Abdulelah Morshed, stated that the device was used in high-risk coronary interventions for two cases who suffer from severe weakness of the heart muscle, where its efficiency reaches less than 20% and they also suffer from narrowing of the coronary artery, and it was installed They were treated percutaneously through the peripheral artery, and the catheter procedure was performed for both of them easily and easily, which allowed them to be discharged from the hospital, thanks to God, in good health.
