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A medical team at Assiut University exclusively performs the largest and most dangerous operation in the history of vascular surgery and interventional catheterization in Upper Egypt

Dr. Hossam Al-Arabi, Director of the Orman University Hospital in Assiut, announced the success of the hospital in saving the life of a 47-year-old patient from death, in collaboration with a team of vascular surgery, anesthesia and intensive care. He revealed that the hospital had received the patient suffering from severe pain in the chest and abdomen, which was immediately received by the team of the Department of Cardiovascular and urgent sectional scan, which showed the existence of a segment along the thoracic aorta and abdomen and lack of circulation of the kidneys, liver and intestines and the occurrence of semi-paralysis . In the same context, Dr. Osman Mahmoud Ahmed, a professor of vascular surgery, explained that this process is the largest and most dangerous in the history of vascular surgery and interventional catheterization in Upper Egypt, which made Assiut University hold a unique place for performing the first case of this interdisciplinary specialization to open the way and give a new hope for many patients whose always believed that the choice of surgical intervention and the return of blood vessels has been impossible in Upper Egypt.