Clemenceau Medical Center's Electrophysiology clinic performs rare and risky procedure
It was a case no one else was ready to take on – a heart condition so rare that even the Mayo Clinic has recorded just 30 cases in the past 20 years – and a patient with a history of going into cardiac arrest during surgical procedures. But for Dr Khaled Awad, Electrophysiologist and Interventional Cardiologist at Clemenceau Medical Center Hospital (CMC Hospital), it was a chance to give a woman her life back. “Everybody was telling her, ‘we can’t do it’, but she was really suffering,” says Dr Awad. “For years, even with high dosages of anti-arrhythmia drugs, she would have a ...
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