Acute kidney, heart trouble killed her?

After spending four months at Burjeel Hospital Abu Dhabi, 37-year-old Eman Abdul Atti’s sudden demise took the medical fraternity and her well wishers by surprise.

In their official statement, medical experts from Burjeel Hospital mentioned ‘Complications, from the underlying co-morbid conditions including heart diseases and kidney dysfunction’, as cause of her death.

After being moved to Abu Dhabi on May 4, a team of 20 doctors had conducted investigations of her health parameters.

HT had reported about a leakage in her heart that could be fatal, as told by doctors treating her at a hospital in Abu Dhabi.

Though her psychological condition had improved, evident from the pictures and videos shared by the hospital, her heart echo had a different story to tell about her physiological state.

“Eman’s heart echo revealed a severe regurgitation (leakage) of the aortic valve. We have put her on conservative treatment with possible valve replacement as a part of the long-term plan,” Yassin El-Shahat, chief medical officer of the hospital, said in May.

Doctors had planned to treat Eman’s acute issues — including her urinary tract infection, bedsores, rehabilitation, speech therapy — and provide her with psychological support within three months, as part of phase 1.

Dr Muffazal Lakdawala, Eman’s treating doctor from Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, had said most of Eman’s obesity-related problems such as severe hypothyroidism, lymphoedema, right-sided heart failure (or pulmonale), severe obstructive respiratory disease, renal failure and congestive liver were under control.

While doctors from Burjeel Hospital are yet to share more details, it is likely that kidney and heart complications, which were previously diagnosed during the course of her treatment, eventually caused her death.

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