المملكة: Opening a specialized clinic for kidney stones and urinary tract at King Fahd University Hospital
Declare King Fahd University Hospital in Khobar, affiliated with Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University, announced the opening of the Kidney and Urinary Tract Stones Clinic, in a qualitative step aimed at enhancing the quality of specialized health care and providing integrated services to patients who suffer from recurrent kidney stone formation as a result of Metabolic disorders.
The clinic is a model of medical integration, as it is jointly managed by Professor Abdullah Al-Hwaish, Professor of Nephrology in the Department of Internal Medicine, and Dr. Hatem Al-Dhubyani, Consultant in Stone Surgery, Endoscopic Urology and Robotic Surgery in the Department of Urology, ensuring comprehensive care based on accurate diagnosis and integrated treatment.
Identifying and treating the causes
The clinic focuses on identifying metabolic causes. The root For the formation of stones, and developing customized treatment and preventive plans for each patient, which contributes to reducing the recurrence of stones, reducing the need for repeated surgical interventions, and preserving kidney function in the long term, in addition to reducing treatment costs and reducing health complications.
On this occasion, the Executive Director of King Fahd University Hospital in Al-Khobar, Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Salam Yousef, confirmed that the opening of this clinic comes as an extension of the hospital’s keenness to adopt modern therapeutic models based on integration between medical specialties, noting that the clinic It represents a qualitative addition to the system of specialized health services provided by the hospital.
He said, “At King Fahd University Hospital, we seek to provide advanced health care that is patient-centered and based on the latest medical practices based on scientific evidence. This clinic comes in response to the need of a group of patients who suffer from recurring kidney stones, by focusing on prevention and treating the root causes, which reflects positively on their quality of life.
Integrated treatment for the patient
For his part, Dr. Hatem Al-Dhubyani explained that the idea The clinic was launched from the need to treat stone patients in a comprehensive manner that goes beyond surgical intervention. Through this clinic, we aim to move from treating stones to treating the patient as a whole, through accurate diagnosis of metabolic causes and the development of individual preventive and therapeutic plans, which reduces the recurrence of stones and preserves kidney function in the long term.
He added that cooperation between the specialties of nephrology and urology allows the provision of integrated health care that contributes to reducing complications and improving therapeutic outcomes for patients.
The opening of this clinic comes as a result of the need to treat stone patients in a comprehensive manner that goes beyond surgical intervention. The clinic is part of the efforts of King Fahad University Hospital in Al-Khobar to develop its specialized services and enhance its role as a leading academic and therapeutic center that serves the community in accordance with the highest standards of health quality.
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