Al Ain: Doctors have saved the life of a six year old Emirati boy who was brought to Tawam Hospital after suffering a life threatening trauma in a road mishap.
A car accident had left Tayyeb Al Ka'abi with a bleeding stomach, damaged liver, and torn artery of the right kidney. The child has now recovered and re-joined his school. His kidney will, however, need around a year to go back to optimum functioning, said the doctors.
Dr Ayman Saleh, Head of the Interventional Radiology and Dr Zuhair Shihab, Head of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the hospital, said an angiogram was conducted to see the severity of the injuries and doctors decided to urgently insert a stent in the renal artery through an invasive procedure.
"The moment stent placement was completed, Tayyeb's blood pressure decreased to normal levels," said the doctors, noting that a delay in diagnosis could have resulted in removing the patient's kidney.
During the surgery, Dr Ayman managed to remove a number of clots that formed in the artery as well. Tayyeb was sent to ICU immediately after the surgery and was under 24 hour surveillance.
Tawam Hospital is part of the SEHA Health System and is owned and operated by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) which is responsible for the curative activities of all the public hospitals and clinics in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The hospital is managed by Johns Hopkins Medicine International.
