Filipina with ruptured brain aneurysm undergoes life-saving surgery in Dubai
Dubai: In what is being hailed as timely, life-saving surgery, surgeons at Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, quickly diagnosed a lethal ruptured brain aneurysm in a patient who had complained of a headache. Within 20 minutes she was rushed for what turned out to be a life-saving surgery. Ela, the 41-year-old Filipina expatriate, came to the hospital’s Emergency section a day before New Year’s eve, complaining of a thunderclap headache that had rendered her unconscious. Doctors at the Emergency unit quickly assessed her and sent her for a CT scan within 20 minutes of her arrival. “The CT scan re...
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