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Doctors in Abu Dhabi have conducted one of the world's rarest heart surgeries, which has only been performed on less than 20 people worldwide.
The high-risk, four-hour long quadruple valve replacement surgery, in which the patient's heart valves were replaced with tissue valves, meant that the 22-year-old man's heart had to be stopped for 70 minutes on the operation table.
Surgeons replaced all four heart valves in the patient, who was suffering from acute infective endocarditis, that was caused by an infected tooth.
Dr Rakesh Suri, CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, told Khaleej Times that the patient was literally hours away from his death.
"When I went to see the patient before the surgery, I was so struck by the fact that he was so near to death and really had no options - that it became a moral obligation to get him to the operating table as quickly as possible."
Dr Suri pointed out that infections in native heart valves are extraordinarily rare. Moreover, he stressed that the patient arrived at a very late and critical stage.
The four-hour surgeryThe patient became sick in December last year after having an infected tooth removed His infection rapidly spread throughout his body, attaching itself to all four heart valves and severely damaging them During the open-heart surgery, the patient was placed on a heart-lung bypass machine and his heart was stopped for 70 minutes The four valves of his heart were removed and replaced with the tissue valves. |
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