Al-Marsad Newspaper: A specialized medical team from the Heart Center at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh managed to remove a heart from a donor in the UAE and transplant it to a patient at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, in record time.
Coordination and completion of the regular procedures, and approval of the deceased’s relatives, took place, in cooperation with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, the National Program for Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissue (Hayat) in the Emirates, and air medical evacuation.
A medical team from the Heart Center at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh traveled to the United Arab Emirates, where it performed the operation to remove the heart from the deceased donor within 40 minutes, at Cleveland Hospital Abu Dhabi. Faisal Specialist and Research Center in Riyadh approximately 3 hours and 20 minutes.
The medical and field teams had started their preparations and preparing the operating room, where a heart transplant was performed upon his arrival to a 51-year-old patient and it was successful.
