A Heart Center specialist medical team at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh managed to remove a heart from a donor in the UAE and transplant it into a hospital patient, in record time.
The Saudi news agency said:Was“, Wednesday, that” the coordination and completion of the regular procedures and approval of the relatives of the deceased (…) was carried out in collaboration with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, the National Program for Donation and Transplantation of human organs and Tissue (Hayat) in the Emirates and air medical evacuation “.
The medical team from the hospital’s heart center traveled to the Emirates and performed the operation to remove the heart from the deceased donor within 40 minutes, at Cleveland Hospital in Abu Dhabi, according to the agency.
It took about 3 hours and 20 minutes to transport the heart through the air medical evacuation and reach the hospital operating room.
The medical and field team had begun the preparations and preparation of the operating room, where the heart transplant was performed upon arrival to a 51-year-old patient and was successful.
Interestingly, the Heart Center at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center was established in 1989 and is the largest heart transplant program in the Middle East and achieves similar results to heart transplant results achieved globally, according to SPA. .
