The surgical team of Imam Al-Hujjah Hospital succeeded in saving a seventy-year-old’s lower limb from amputation. Dr. Ihsan Ali Al-Amiri, a renowned cardiovascular surgeon, stated, “The seventy-year-old patient has several chronic diseases, including hypertension, atherosclerosis, and clogged arteries. She had developed gangrene in her right toes, and a complete occlusion in the artery of the right foot, leg, and knee, all the way up to her midthigh, and she was in an unstable condition.
Al-Amiri adds, “The decision to operate on the patient was difficult, but with the presence of qualified physicians in the hospital, including anesthesiologist Abd Al-Ameer Noori, and the surgical team, the surgery was successful. We opened the right artery and its branches. The patient had venous thrombosis. We were able to withdraw the thrombus from the vein and from the artery, and the blood flow returned to normal”.
It’s worth noting that this surgery is one of the few in which a blood clot is withdrawn from the vein and artery and normal blood flow is restored. Although the patient was a candidate for amputation, the expertise of the surgical staff decreased the risks and we saved the patient from amputation.
