Announced Public Health Care Authority, On the success of the first operation to expand the trunk and anterior descending artery in the heart of a patient using a technique The modern medical scholarAnd that is at the Authority’s Children’s Specialized Nasr Hospital in Port Said.
The authority, headed by Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, Chairman of the Authority’s Board of Directors, Assistant Minister of Health and Population, General Supervisor of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Project, indicated that this operation is the first of its kind in Egypt, stressing that Al-Nasr Specialist Hospital is distinguished by the continuous development and expansion of its services to provide the latest Advanced technologies and keeping abreast of scientific advancements in the field of cardiac catheterization, to include performing operations using the latest technologies such as Tavi operations, medical scales and others, due to what these advanced operations achieve of high success results, safety, comfort and safety for patients.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky emphasized that Al-Nasr Specialized Hospital is one of the most important centers for treatment and cardiovascular surgery in Egypt, and has been equipped with the latest medical means and devices to provide treatment for heart diseases, as well as providing diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization services, in addition to cardiac examination services at the highest technological levels. And international technology, by a distinguished and professional medical team backed with expertise and skills in this specialty.
Al-Sobky added: The procedures and policies of the authority’s Nasr Hospital in Port Said are in line with all international quality standards to ensure the safety and security of patients, pointing out that the hospital has a capacity of 49 internal beds, 5 pediatric intensive care beds, 9 intensive care beds dedicated to adult cardiac surgery patients, 4 nurseries. 4 operating theaters, in addition to a pediatric renal dialysis unit.
The President of the Health Care Authority stated that upon the hospital’s reception of the patient who had undergone the removal of calcifications using a medical tape measure, the necessary radiographs and medical examinations were performed for him, and it was found that he was suffering from severe calcification of the artery in the trunk and anterior descending and chronic kidney failure, and that it cannot be treated by means. The usual open-heart surgeries are due to the severity of calcifications along the anterior artery and the presence of kidney problems.
The medical team treating the patient decided to use the modern medical device in his treatment, and a balloon expansion was made and drug stents were installed for the patient using this modern device, which is a breakthrough in recent years in the field of cardiac catheterization and the treatment of clogging and narrowing of the arteries without surgical intervention, which was replaced instead of an open heart..
Al-Sobky added that a “medical artery” is used to remove severe calcifications inside the coronary artery, in addition to evaluating the narrow places in the arteries of the heart to determine the appropriate treatment for it, using endoscopes that pass inside the coronary artery and give a picture of the lumen of this artery to evaluate balloon enlargements and the installation of stents after placing them. Inside the coronary arteries.
Al-Sobky continued: “Modern technologies in cardiac catheterization have enabled us to perform complex interventions, which were difficult to perform before through catheters, for example changing heart valves with catheters, performing primary artery expansion, as well as opening completely blocked arteries, as well as removing Severe calcifications with the catheter.“
Dr. Ahmed Al-Sobky emphasized that scientific research and knowledge of the latest developments and research in the medical and scientific arena, as well as continuous development and sound clinical practice in accordance with internationally updated guiding work guides, is the authority’s work constitution, pointing to the Commission’s keenness to be open to seeing all that is new and exchanging experiences With all the authorities concerned in the health sector, in a way that guarantees providing the best services and health care to the beneficiaries of the new comprehensive health insurance system, the dream of all Egyptians, as it is the main tool of the state in controlling and organizing the provision of health services to the beneficiaries of the new system.
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