Prof. Ahmed El-Menshawi, Dean of Assiut University Faculty of Medicine, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Assiut University Hospitals, announced the success of the hospital in rescuing the life of a 66-year-old woman with a severe stroke caused by a 90% narrowing in the right carotid artery. For the first time, in Upper Egypt, the patient was given local anesthesia and was therefore awake and consciousness during the surgery.
With Local Anesthesia Surgery Assiut University Hospital Rescues the Life of An Elderly Woman by Treating Her Carotid Artery