King Khalid Hospital in Tabuk is rebuilding the upper party of a twenty -year -old

With the grace of God, a medical team from the Orthopedic and Joint Surgery Department at King Khalid Hospital of the Tabuk Health Assembly managed to save the arm of a twenty -year -old man, who was exposed to a terrible traffic accident that led to a complete loss of the distant half of the humerus in the right arm of 12 cm, with almost completely shattering of the right facility joint. The medical team, led by an orthopedic and joint surgery consultant, Dr. Ahmed Ismail Al -Hiji, said: “When the patient reached the hospital emergency, first aid and radiological examinations were conducted, and the case that is classified as a partial amputation and complete loss of the arm and right facility was studied with a total length And his relatives, and their understanding of injury. ”

Dr. Al -Hayyi explained: “After completing the necessary medical preparations appropriate to this unproductive injury, the patient was immediately introduced to the operating room, where ten continuous surgical interventions were conducted, including two -thirds of the fragment bone from the right and left leg, then rebuilding and restoring the attached joint of both the ulna and the right -wing, in addition to the restoration of the joint joint on the side The arm. The right arm bone was rebuilt by a distance of 12 cm by using the right and right fragmented bones as a substitute for the lost humerus, and their shape from the leg bone is converted into a new shape that is proportional to its new geomatic function as an arm and attached, and fixed with two metal slides and nails. ”

And Dr. Al -Hayyi confirmed: “With the grace of God – the new arm and facilities were fully moved as a test during surgery, which was crowned with the success of God – and it took nearly ten continuous hours in the operating room.

And Dr. Al -Hiji noted: “This process is considered a very rare operation, as it included innovative surgeries.”