Uae: Italian medical excellence in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi - The Italian medical excellence makes miracles in Abu Dhabi. The Italian Embassy on Twitter shares congratulations to Prof. Antonio Pinna, Director Transplant Surgery and Hepato-Biliary surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. A UAE hospital will begin offering liver, heart and lung transplants for the first time meaning patients will no longer have to travel abroad for treatment. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi announced on Tuesday that its surgeons successfully completed one of each surgery from deceased donors making it the first multi organ transplant programme in the country. Until now only kidney transplants have been performed at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, the only other hospital to offer transplant surgery in Abu Dhabi. The UAE’s first deceased donor full liver transplant was performed on February 1 by a five-person medical and surgical team led by transplant surgeon Dr Antonio Pinna. Ten days later, on February 11, the country’s first deceased donor lung transplant was performed by Dr Redha Souilamas, chief of thoracic surgery. In December last year, surgeons at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi performed the UAE’s first full heart transplant, while a team from the hospital conducted kidney transplants from a deceased donor in September 2017.