5-hour heart surgery saves expat’ s life

The positive outcome of this procedure is due to the highly qualified staff as well as the unlimited support from the Rashid and Dubai hospitals’ heart team.”

Dr Maryam Mohammad Al

Rayssi, CEO, Dubai Hospital

dubai — The cardiothoracic surgery department at Dubai Hospital conducted a complicated five-hour long heart surgery to save the life of a 58-year-old Indian expat who suffered from a rapture in the wall of the left side of his heart.

The patient was admitted to the emergency and trauma centre at the Rashid Hospital with severe chest pain and critically high blood pressure.

Doctors diagnosed him with an acute myocardial infarction that was causing an impending rupture to the free back wall of the left side of his heart and a critically stenotic right coronary artery.

Following his diagnosis, the patient was transferred to Dubai Hospital for an emergency openheart surgery and required an increased amount of heart medication to support his critically high blood pressure.

Dr Bassil Al Zamkan, senior consultant of cardiothoracic surgery, and Dr Fayaz Khazi, consultant cardiac anesthetist at Dubai Hospital, performed the surgery, which is considered to be the firstof-its-kind and took approximately five hours.

Dr Al Zamkan said this kind of heart disease is not only rare but also has a high mortality rate, which is why the patient had to undergo a timely and immediate open-heart surgery to treat the ruptured wall of the heart as well as coronary artery bypass using a grafting procedure.

The patient was then transferred to intensive care unit in a stable condition for recovery.

Dr Maryam Mohammad Al Rayssi, CEO of Dubai Hospital, congratulated the team and said: “The positive outcome of this procedure is due to the highly qualified staff as well as the unlimited support from the Rashid and Dubai hospitals’ heart team. It is because of these skilled teams that we are able to do high-risk complicated cases successfully at par with international standards.”