UAE doctors perform challenging surgery Pakistani man with extremely rare life-threatening condition

UAE doctors perform challenging surgery Pakistani man with extremely rare life-threatening condition

Haemoptysis is a serious and life-threatening condition that refers to coughing up blood from the lungs as a result of pulmonary bleeding

Published: Wed 14 Jun 2023, 12:46 PM

Doctors at Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City have successfully performed a lung-sparing resection surgery on an international patient suffering from haemoptysis resulting from an extremely rare congenital lung malformation.

Haemoptysis is a serious and life-threatening condition that refers to coughing up blood from the lungs as a result of pulmonary bleeding. Husnain Shahzada, a 27-year-old patient from Pakistan, suffered from haemoptysis due to a congenital lung airway malformation – a disease present from birth that represents an abnormal development of the lungs.

“Due to the patient having a congenital deformity, there was abnormal communication between the aorta, the body’s largest artery, and the lung. This meant that blood circulation was low in pressure, whereas the aorta had high systemic pressure. This type of malformation caused an increase in the blood pressure within the lung, which is why the patient experienced bleeding through the airways for several years,” Dr Norberto Santana Rodriguez, thoracic surgery consultant and chair of the Thoracic Surgery Division at SSMC, said while explaining the patient’s rare and complex condition.

Dr Norberto Santana