A medical team at the Saudi Ministry of Health was able to save the life of a Syrian woman at the end of her 40s, who was suffering from severe acute and sudden headaches with frequent vomiting, due to the explosion of a huge arterial aneurysm in the left carotid artery of the brain.
The Ministry of Health indicated that Mina Al-Jisr Hospital received the patient, and she was suffering from a severe, sudden and severe headache with frequent vomiting. Cross-sectional dye on the brain to reach an accurate diagnosis, and it was found that there was a rupture of an arterial aneurysm in the brain, which necessitated placing the patient on a ventilator after a sharp drop in the degree of consciousness close to fainting.
She added, the urgent coordination was made to refer the patient to King Abdullah Medical City as a “life-saving case” on a ventilator, and the pathological history did not show any head trauma, any anticoagulants or heart diseases except for hypothyroidism, and she takes 50 micrograms of thyroid hormone for treatment. Every day, a CT scan was done on the brain at King Abdullah Medical City within the neuro-interventional radiology team and the neurosurgery team, the results of which showed the presence of bleeding caused by a massive aneurysm explosion in the left carotid artery of the brain.
The Syrian need that was saved
And the Ministry indicated that the medical team treated the explosion of the cerebral carotid artery aneurysm by means of neurointerventional radiology, using the bypass stent and metal coils, and the artery was reconstructed and the cerebral arterial aneurysm was completely closed by consultants of neurointerventional radiology on the same day of hypnosis in a process that took 4 hours and was successful. Praise be to God, the patient has recovered with remarkable improvement, separated from the ventilator and a complete state of consciousness, with no neuropathy or weakness in the extremities, while keeping her under intensive treatment and follow-up at the Neurological Care Unit in the Medical City.
She indicated that medical coordination was made to enable the needy to stand in Arafat, and she was sent at night to Arafat to complete the rituals of Hajj within the campaign of King Abdullah Medical City in an ambulance accompanied by consultants from neurosurgery and intensive care, and she returned safely after her pilgrimage led to intensive care, which is She prays for the government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, after she was able to perform her rituals, which she came for, after she was crippled by illness, had it not been for the grace of God, then the great health care volume and the efforts behind the health heroes of all disciplines.