Lebanese service in America … A Lebanese doctor innovates in medicine to treat the polycystic kidney after suffering from his father's illness!

Lebanese researcher and researcher Fouad Shabib has traveled long distances to realize his dream. The story began in Lebanon the day his son Fouad Fouad was a victim of kidney kidney disease. Behind every big dream, there is an inspiration and his sick father was his inspiration. The doctor and researcher Shabib has not had a hard time finding that his father has been battling this disease for many years and this suffering has turned it into a global Lebanese achievement in designing a drug to treat heart disease. kidney.

From a small Lebanese town in the United States, then Mayo Clinic, one of the most famous American hospitals. In a special interview published on the Mayo Clinic website, Dr. Shabib said, "I am a Kidney and a Research Scientist, and I am particularly interested in kidney disease, genetic diseases or genetic mutations in which Groups of cysts develop in the kidneys, Over time, kidney dysfunction leads to kidney failure. "

My father suffers before my eyes

So today, no medicine against the disease. But for the first time, kidney dialysis patients will have hope thanks to a new drug invented by the Lebanese doctor Shabib. "The new drug disables a hormone called vasopressin, which prevents enlargement of the sac and its growth in the kidneys." One of them even called me to say that the US Food and Drug Administration had approved the new drug and, after hearing the news, Shabib said: I immediately called my father. "

Shabib is part of the team of researchers who have worked hard to develop the drug at the Mayo Clinic. "My father had kidney dialysis for many years, I saw his stomach and his suffering in front of my eyes and I did not want anyone to have the same experience," Shabib said.

Hope for kidney patients

So his dream was born, his father managed to conquer his fight against the disease thanks to a new kidney transplant. "If I did not have a kidney transplant, maybe I would not be a doctor and I would be in the United States," he said.

After a kidney transplant for his father, Dr. Shabib was able to focus on his studies and travel to the United States to complete his studies and specialization.

After this feat, Dr. Shabib traveled with his wife and son, Jean-Paul, to meet his parents at St. Paul's Airport. It was a moving moment to meet for the first time his parents and their grandson. "We hope that this treatment will open the door to patients with this disease," conclude the doctor and the researcher.