Jeddah .. Surgery saves a young man of rare critical condition at King Fahd Hospital

He was suffering from an air leak due to a hole caused by a previous quantization process

A medical team from King Fahd Hospital of Jeddah managed to rescue a young man from the third decade of a rare complex illness by quickly intervening to develop telescopic prophylaxis within one and a half hours of operation .

The young Saudi man had gone to the emergency department at the hospital with an ambulance in critical condition; the initial diagnosis was advanced poisoning.

After a thorough examination and examination of the history of the disease, it was found that the patient was suffering from an air leak due to a hole caused by a quantification process performed by the patient in a private hospital that had resulted in a accumulation of air around the heart and behind the large chest (huge pneumomedist) and acute renal failure.

The results of the medical analysis showed that creatinine 12, in addition to blood poisoning, and a significant increase in the number of white blood cells, to (33,000), with a high acidity of lactate (3.8).

Due to the critical condition of the surgery, a number of specialist consultants at King Fahd Hospital (Drs Ahmed Khalil and Hammad Shuja) decided to resort to a laparoscopic procedure to install an esophagus in the hospital. # 39; s esophagus.

During the operation, the patient was placed under respirator, then placed a long covered stent to block the leakage between the esophagus and the stomach through the endoscope and the length of the stent is 23 cm; its end was placed in the second part of the twelve and started in the middle of the esophagus; Leakage of air.

Dr. Shuja pointed out that the patient's condition is now stable, as well as in the improvement and praise of God, where he has gone beyond the critical and rare situation.