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The medical team at the Vascular Surgery Center at the Saudi German Hospital Dubai has successfully performed a procedure that is the first of its kind in the UAE to treat aortic aneurysms with intracranial ultrasound from a 66-year-old Jordanian patient.

According to the medical team that supervised the treatment of the patient, the patient came to the hospital and suffers from pain in the leg, but after the clinical examination between the presence of a significant mass in the abdomen, taking into account the age of the patient and suffering from high blood pressure, Smoked, increased the possibility of infection of the expansion of the abdominal aortic artery, and immediately was a cross-sectional image of the shady material, which showed a large expansion in the aortic artery in the form of a ball and is what is the most dangerous types of aortic aorta and requires immediate treatment because it can explode at any moment threatening Life of the patient.

He added that the operation, which lasted for two hours, which is a record time, was the installation of a buffer through the catheter and without any surgical openings, and using the technique of sound waves from within the arteries. The stent was installed very carefully and the patient did not need the intensive care after the operation as is the case in such operations, and recovered the patient after 48 hours and discharged from the hospital without any complications.

The medical team points out that aortic aneurysm is one of the most serious diseases of the blood vessels, since in most cases it is without symptoms, so it is a deadly silent disease and an explosion in this expansion causes death, an emergency that does not wait while Early detection and treatment of the disease in an appropriate manner can prevent its complications.

For its part, said the Executive Director of Saudi German Hospital Dubai d. Reem Osman, said that the technique used in the process is a substitute for the procedures used in open surgery and the complications associated with it, and the high risk to the patient's life, adding that the center of vascular surgery in the hospital is ready to receive all cases of blood vessels and treatment, Or surgical use of interventional radiography.