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American Hospital Dubai, a regional leader in medical excellence, set another benchmark in complex, minimally invasive treatments by successfully performing brain surgery on a female patient diagnosed with a large, potentially lethal aneurysm.
Dr Parviz Dolati, a board-certified neurosurgeon with multiple clinical fellowships from North America, including Harvard Medical School, and 26 years of experience in brain and spinal surgery, conducted the challenging operation. Dr Dolati performs more than 200-300 major brain and spine cases every year, managing more than 30,000 outpatient cases at university and private clinics and hospitals.
“The patient had a very large aneurysm in the ophthalmic segment of the internal carotid artery in her brain,” explains Dr Dolati. “So, we applied the latest technology in minimally invasive treatments to access the aneurysm without making an incision on her skull.”
American Hospital Dubai’s Center of Excellence in robotic surgery crosses another milestone in complex minimally invasive surgeries with a successful partial nephrectomy. The procedure removes potentially cancerous kidney tumours while ensuring the surrounding healthy kidney tissue remains intact thus maintain the kidney function.
Dr Muhammad Elmussareh, a UK-board certified consultant urologist with extensive experience in robotic renal surgeries, conducted the complex procedure using the most advanced 4th generation Da Vinci Xi Robotic System. American Hospital Dubai, the leader in robotic surgeries, was the first medical facility in the UAE to employ this technology and has conducted more than 1,000 robotic surgeries.
American Hospital Dubai performed the first successful cryoablation procedure to remove renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in the Middle East and Africa (Mena).
The most advanced treatment for kidney cancer, cryoablation, uses freezing temperatures to destroy malignant cells, i.e., average tissue temperature of 37 degrees Celsius against probe temperature of approximately −140 degrees Celsius.
Cryoablation is used for curative and palliative purposes, leading to a rapid recovery, improved comfort, less pain, and fewer complications. The procedure, which involves introducing several probes under image guidance to target the lesion, was completed in under two hours with no complications, with the patient under sedation.