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