2023-08-01 10:47:55
Surgical intervention ends the suffering of a child
A medical team specializing in pediatric orthopedics and sports injuries at Najran New General Hospital managed to successfully re-dislocate the kneecap of a 10-year-old child in a 3-hour surgery that was crowned with success.
Najran Health Ministry stated that the patient was suffering from difficulty walking and irritating pain in the knees as a result of the repeated removal of the two soaps. Where the medical and surgical team decided, following conducting clinical and radiological examinations, to perform a surgery to return the patellar to its normal location and to perform the restoration of the lateral tendon, by taking a tendon from the knee itself and returning the patellar to its normal place following relaxing the taut tissues using the endoscope in an operation.
It is considered one of the specialized qualitative operations in this field. The child left the hospital in good health and was given the necessary follow-ups to complete the treatment plan, which includes rehabilitation and physical therapy.
It is noteworthy that Najran General Hospital received, during the first half of this year, 34,550 patients in the outpatient departments and 31,247 in the emergency departments, while the number of surgeries reached 1,317, and 129,838 laboratory tests were conducted.
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