The 54-year-old Sudanese patient, Iman, has been suffering from cardiomyopathy for four years.According to the Cleveland Abu Dhabi Hospital, she needs a heart transplant and a left ventricle, at a cost of AED1,907,000.
The patient's husband told her story about the disease to «Emirates Today», saying: «nine years ago my wife began to feel symptoms in the chest, I took her to the emergency department at Sheikh Khalifa Hospital in Abu Dhabi, and found after the examination of doctors that she suffers from a weak heart muscle, then was She spent her medications for four years. She used to live normally, while she was hospitalized from time to time, and her condition began to worsen.
He added: «Her heart was weakened, and could not practice normal life, and doctors asked to transfer to the hospital Cleveland Abu Dhabi, where she underwent a catheterization operation, and stabilized her health, and a solution was placed in the heart muscle to activate, but then doctors decided to perform a heart transplant in the hospital "Because of her poor health."
He pointed out that «the costs of heart transplantation is very expensive, amounting to one million and 907 thousand dirhams, and this amount above my modest financial resources, and my wife needs the operation urgently, to save her life».
He continued: «I am the only breadwinner for my family, and I work in a private sector with a salary of 7,500 dirhams, of which deducted 3600 dirhams per month to rent the house and the rest of the expenses of life and requirements, and I do not know what to work under the circumstances ordered, as I stand unable to do anything, so I appeal to the people Good and compassionate hearts help me in the treatment expenses for my sick wife ».
According to the medical report issued by the Cleveland Hospital Abu Dhabi that «the patient suffers from arrhythmia cardiomyopathy and ejected part 30%, and the failure of the right side of the heart, and had undergone a magnetic resonance imaging, where it was found that there are symptoms and signs of fibrosis of both left and right ventricles, The patient has also undergone a cardiac resynchronization treatment, due to severe congenital heart failure, with no response to medical treatment, and despite the ideal functioning of the cardiac resynchronization treatment, monthly visits at the heart failure clinic and maximum response to medical treatment, the patient is still Suffer E. Vaca heartily congenitally sharply. »
The report added that the patient feels short of breath when making little effort, and is unable to perform daily activities related to living, and found that the electrocardiogram, which was conducted recently that she suffers from the expansion of the right ventricle, as well as the systolic dysfunction of the tricuspid valve and reflux hollow vein congested, The patient underwent catheterization of the right side of the heart at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and it was found that her cardiac output is low and the systemic pressure decreases again, commensurate with the low cardiac output.
The medical report pointed out that the patient needs a heart transplant and help the left ventricle in the hospital, and the cost of one million and 907 thousand dirhams.
The patient underwent a cardiac resynchronization device for severe congenital heart failure.