American tourist with rare, fatal disease cured in Vietnam This file photo shows doctors at Hanoi-based Vietnamese doctors have recently successfully treated an American female visitor who suffered from an acute pulmonary artery obstruction caused by blood clots – a condition that is rare and very fatal. The foreign woman, C.N., 53, had a rather complex health history, said doctors at the Before arriving in As soon as arriving in She then came to a health facility for treatment and was transferred to the However, after specific examination, doctors at the hospitals diagnosed that the woman suffered from an acute pulmonary artery obstruction. The condition was caused by some clots of blood that had moved from veins in the left leg to the heart and then to both pulmonary arteries. After two days of treatment, the woman’s condition got worse and became critical, so doctors asked for assistance from specialists from the A consultation session was conducted between doctors of both hospitals and they finally decided to perform open heart surgery to remove the clots of blood from the pulmonary arteries. The surgery was conducted at the First surgery of this kind in After the operation, the patient was put on a respirator and three days later, her condition become better and she could breathe on her own. More than a week after the surgery, the woman can stand up, walk and feed herself. Re-examinations of the patient’s heart and lungs showed good post-operative results. On December 9, C.N. was transferred to Currently, the woman’s health condition is stable. This successful surgery is a significant success not only of the two hospitals but also of the Vietnamese health sector in general, medical experts said. This is a rare fatal acute disease with a very high risk of death, said Associate Professor Dr Nguyen Huu Uoc, head of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the Patients of the disease can die very soon if they are not treated in time. During the past 10 years, this is the second case of this disease that has been treated successfully at the This is also the first surgery on a patient of acute pulmonary artery obstruction in TUOITRENEWS |
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