Khalifa Medical Center succeeds in treating a child’s heart defect with a complex operation

The medical team lasted 7 hours to perform the surgery.

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A specialized team of pediatric cardiologists in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, a facility of the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company "SEHA", succeeded in treating a complex congenital malformation of a 10-month-old Yemeni child.

The child, Muhammad Noah Hazmi, recovered after an open-heart operation, which lasted about seven hours, to treat a complex congenital malformation in a process considered one of the most complex heart operations, during which a “Rastelli procedure” was followed to correct the congenital malformation, which resulted in narrowing of the pulmonary arteries, and the medical team succeeded. normal pulmonary blood flow.

The Acting Deputy Executive Director for Medical Affairs at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Dr. Zubaida Al-Ismaili, said that a medical team consisting of 12 doctors and nurses performed the operation, which is considered one of the complex and risky operations. The efforts of the medical and technical staff in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City to make the operation a success, which was carried out in coordination and cooperation with the Department of Health in Abu Dhabi.

Al-Ismaily explained that the Pediatric Cardiac Care Team provides comprehensive medical care for children with congenital heart disease and its associated complications, by supervising the stability of their cases before surgery, and intensive care for them after complex cardiac surgeries, noting that pediatric heart surgery is one of the specialties. It is a rare practice that Khalifa Medical City performs, because it has a specialized and distinguished medical team that performs precise heart surgeries.It is reported that the “Rastelli procedure” is an open-heart surgery procedure, and it involves the use of an autologous graft from the pulmonary artery or aorta as a conduit to relieve pulmonary embolism in the right ventricle with double outlet with stenosis in the pulmonary valve, and the procedure is used to correct certain combinations of congenital heart diseases, such as transposition of the arteries. Right major, aortic fitting, double-outlet right ventricle, ventricular septal defect correction, right ventricular outlet obstruction correction (pulmonary atresia), pulmonary valve stenosis, or subvalvular stenosis.