The Saudi medical team affiliated with the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center at the Nabd Al Hayat Center for Cardiac Diseases and Surgery in the city of Mukalla was able to perform a unique operation to open the right coronary artery via a catheter for a 57-year-old patient who suffers from recurring chest pain.

The patient underwent an exploratory catheterization and it was found that he was suffering from chronic blockage in the right coronary artery (C.T.O.). Given the difficulty of opening the artery using traditional methods, the Saudi medical team used the method of opening the artery through the left coronary artery using the Retrograde technique, which led to opening the artery and implanting a medicinal stent.

This technique is considered one of the most complex techniques in treating arterial blockages, as it uses collateral perfusion, and is characterized by a high success rate in treating chronic blockages, especially after the failure of other methods, which makes the Nabd Al Hayat Center for Cardiac Diseases and Surgery the distinguished center in Yemen that performs such procedures. Complex cases and high technologies.