A specialized medical team from the Heart Center at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh was able to perform the operation of removing a heart from a donor in the United Arab Emirates and transplanting it to a patient at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, within a record time, as coordination and completion of regular procedures took place and approvals were obtained from the deceased’s relatives. May God have mercy on him” and in cooperation with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, the National Program for Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissue (Hayat) in the Emirates, and the Air Medical Evacuation, where the medical team from the Heart Center at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh traveled to the United Arab Emirates, and performed an operation Removing the heart from the deceased donor within 40 minutes at Cleveland Hospital Abu Dhabi. It took about 3 hours and 20 minutes to move the heart through air medical evacuation and reach the operating room at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh.
The medical and field teams had started their preparations and preparing the operating room, where the heart transplant was performed upon his arrival to a 51-year-old patient and it was successful.
It is noteworthy that the Heart Center at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center was established in 1989, and it is the largest heart transplant program in the Middle East and achieves results similar to the results of heart transplantation achieved globally.
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