المملكة: A complex angioplasty saves the life of a 50-year-old woman from heart failure in Mecca
Rapid intervention within the urgent care pathway system – one of the pathways of the Saudi health care model – contributed to saving the life of a fifty-year-old patient by performing a complex structural catheterization procedure at King Abdullah Medical City, member Makkah Al-Mukarramah Health Complex, after suffering from advanced heart failure and a long history of heart surgeries.
Symptoms of the condition
She explained The Medical CityThe patient had undergone three open-heart surgeries since her childhood to change heart valves, and the last surgery was 11 years ago.
During the current year, she began to feel severe symptoms of heart failure, which necessitated her reviewing the cardiology clinics at the Medical City, where she was urgently admitted and the necessary tests were performed, which showed the presence of severe regurgitation adjacent to the metal mitral valve with extensive expansions inside the heart.
Given the danger of performing a fourth surgery in light of this Expansions, decide The medical teamturned towards the option of repair via cardiac catheterization without surgery.
The Medical City added that a specialized medical team led by Dr. Ahmed Samman, Dr. Mamdouh Ismail, Dr. Muhammad Minni performed a precise intervention, which consisted of creating a small opening in the apex of the heart through a catheter without surgery, entering through it to repair the paravalvular reflux, then closing the opening using an advanced device used for the first time in the Kingdom in such operations, known as the Amplatz Duct Occluder Type 2.
One of the rarest constructive catheterization operations
The Medical City indicated that this type of intervention through the catheter is considered rare and among the first in the Kingdom, and is also classified among The rarest and most difficult complex reconstructive catheterization operations in the world.
This is the first case of its kind to be performed in the Medical City in light of severe heart dilations and using this type of high-precision devices.
This achievement comes to confirm the development of advanced cardiac services at King Abdullah Medical City, in line with the goals of health transformation and the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 in improving the quality of life and enhancing the level of health care for citizens, residents, and guests of the Holy House of God.
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