Saudi Arabian hospital becomes regional lung transplant leader

[al-Hasani]

MARCHING AHEAD: Surgeons at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center have become regional leaders with a new lung transplant procedure. (AN photo)

RIYADH: ARAB NEWS

Published — Friday 17 January 2014

Last update 17 January 2014 2:18 am

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC) has become the regional leader in lung transplants with the use of innovative new techniques, local media reported.
Qasim bin Othman Al-Qasabi, executive supervisor of the KFSHRC, said the hospital’s use of the new technique is part of its strategic plan to remain the region’s leader in this type of surgery.
Surgeons performed 17 lung transplants in 2013, with a success rate comparable to well known international hospitals, including 15 two-lung, and two one-lung operations, he said.
He said this was an increase of 20 percent from 2012, when doctors completed 14 operations.
He said the hospital’s surgeons also perform heart, liver, kidney, stem cell and bone transplants.
Walid Saleh, a thoracic surgery consultant and surgical director of the lung transplant program at the KFSHRC, said the technique has recently allowed doctors to replace both lungs of a 17-year-old Saudi teenager.
He said the girl had cysts in her lungs that prevented her from breathing normally and resulted in her using an oxygen tank. This affected her growth and saw her confined to a wheelchair.
He said the girl was able to breathe normally, without any aids, two days after the procedure. The doctors moved her out of intensive care after several days. She would leave the hospital soon, he said.

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[Imran Khan]

same as sheesha and smoking hub is also saudia so yes we need it badly when 10 years old kids smoking on streets you must need it













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let me smoke one early morning ciggrate as break fast hey dont look at me i have diplomatic immunity man

 

[al-Hasani]

@Imran Khan

I don't smoke bro. But the situation could be worse!



Still encouraging.

 

[Imran Khan]

@Imran Khan

I don't smoke bro. But the situation could be worse!

Still encouraging.

good for you man i salute you . don't ever smoke . its just cause problems and just problems . BTW ask gov to increase rate of smoking items and TAX them 200% then we may have little relax i wanna see a gold leaf 25 riyals and dunhill 35 riyals per pack so people will think before smoke one

 

[al-Hasani]

good for you man i salute you . don't ever smoke . its just cause problems and just problems . BTW ask gov to increase rate of smoking items and TAX them 200% then we may have little relax i wanna see a gold leaf 25 riyals and dunhill 35 riyals per pack so people will think before smoke one

My mother would get a heart attack if she saw me smoke. She is the kind of ultra protective mother. At one time the most annoying kind of mother and at other times the best type, LOL.

But I have smoked hookah and obviously tried smoking but not something for me.

Yes, there have been campaigns etc. but it is deeply bound among certain people so it will be difficult to get fully ride of it. I mean the people who really want to smoke will continue to do so. Here in Europe they have tried to increase the prizes and some countries have succeeded while others have not.