Medical team at Madinat Zayed Hospital succeeded in performing Abu Dhabi’s “LINX” laparoscopic surgery

Medical team at Madinat Zayed Hospital succeeded in performing Abu Dhabi’s “LINX” laparoscopic surgery

- The procedure took only 40 minutes and permitted the 56-year-old patient to be safely discharged on the same day of his operation.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), the UAE’s largest healthcare network, is sharing how a team from Madinat Zayed Hospital (MZH), one of the Al Dhafra Hospitals and a SEHA affiliate, successfully managed the case of a 56-year-old patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease using “LINX”; one of the latest international surgical methods to treat such conditions.

Dr. Mariam Rashid Al Muhairbi, Deputy Executive Medical Director of Al Dhafra Hospitals, explained that Madinat Zayed Hospital’s team of experts performed the surgery of its kind in Abu Dhabi to implant the magnetic ring (Linx). Dr. Al Muharibi commented further on the success of the operation and said: “we are very proud that the Madinat Zayed Hospital team led by Dr. Fadi Al Mahameed, General Surgery Consultant and chair of the surgery department at MZH. The team were able to treat the patient with this novel medical procedure, with the consideration of him having suffered from gastroesophageal reflux disease for an extended period of time and was in great pain and discomfort prior to his “LINX” operation.”