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Non-surgical cardiac procedures performed
AL AIN — Tawam Hospital, the UAE and Gulf region’s premier healthcare provider,
Organised an interventional cardiology workshop from November 12-16 where many advanced non-surgical cardiac procedures were performed.
During the workshop, Dr Michael Slack, an internationally renowned consultant paediatric cardiologist from Johns Hopkins University Medical Centre in the United States, performed advanced non-surgical procedures for closing atrial septal defects (ASD) under intracardiac echocardiography, on persons aged between 3-19, for the first time in the UAE.
Dr Slack performed the procedures along with the Tawam team led by Dr Mohamed Hamdan, consultant paediatric cardiologist and Head of the Al Ain-based hospital’s paediatric cardiology division. The procedures were performed on 14 UAE National patients at Tawam’s newly-opened Siemens Cardiac Catheterisation and Angiography Suite. This state-of-the-art treatment facility offers advanced cardiac and vascular procedures for patients of different age groups.
Speaking at a Press conference yesterday, Mr Michael Heindel, CEO, Tawam Hospital said: “Tawam Hospital’s affiliation to Johns Hopkins Centre has enabled the hospital to perform the increasingly preferred non-surgical percutaneous closure technique in the country. This has made Tawam one of the few centres worldwide to offer such advanced services, fulfilling the commitment of the General Authority for Health Services of the emirate of Abu Dhabi and Tawam Hospital to provide the best in international healthcare to our patients.”
He added “Tawam Hospital has yet again taken the lead to bring the latest in treatment approaches for cardiac patients in the UAE and the Gulf region. Performing this advanced procedure for ASD patients marks a significant evolution in local access to globally-adopted medical services, and adds considerably to Tawam Hospital’s ability to offer high quality care, and results in direct cost-savings.”
Dr Slack, who is credited with building the Interventional Cardiac Catheterisation programme of the Children’s National Heart Institute at Children’s National Medical Centre in the US, has performed hundreds of such procedures for patients suffering from these heart defects, and has helped in developing this technique. He has also founded the Adult Congenital Interventional Cardiac Catheterisation Program at the Washington Hospital Center, one of the busiest adult cardiology centres in the US. Dr Slack’s visit and workshop at Tawam were sponsored under Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Visiting Physician Programme.
The procedure took place at Tawam’s cardiac catheterisation suite which offers a one-of- its- kind modern technology in the region in the form of the Siemens Senesis System, and Acunav Intracardiac Echocardiopgraphy. This allows physicians to perform cardiac catheterisations and interventions, as well as a broad range of special radiological procedures, for the growing number of patients with diseases of the heart and blood vessels in the area.
Dr Hamdan.said “Children with ASD were treated without risky surgery or general anaesthesia since the new technique enables closure of cardiac holes or defects through a groin vessel under local anaesthesia guided by intracardiac echocardiography. Intracardiac ultrasound is a new technique that has been only applied in a few countries of the world and was performed for the first time in the UAE and the region,” he added.
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