Beirut hospital offers hope for civilians injured in Iraq, Syria
Farah Qasim El-Saad, a mother of three who had her shoulder and jaw partially blown off in a street bombing in Baghdad a year ago, says she would be living a very different life today if not for this: After receiving initial trauma care at an emergency room in the Iraqi capital, she decided to […]Brooke Anderson reports for the Wall Street Journal:
Farah Qasim El-Saad, a mother of three who had her shoulder and jaw partially blown off in a street bombing in Baghdad a year ago, says she would be living a very different life today if not for this: After receiving initial trauma care at an emergency room in the Iraqi capital, she decided to go to Lebanon for follow-up treatment at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.
There, doctors took CT scans and created 3-D images of her skull to determine her bone and fat loss. They then grafted stem cells from her abdominal fat onto her face to replace fat that was destroyed as a result of the injury and to correct the contour she had lost. Ms. El-Saad was the first blast-wound patient at the hospital to undergo the procedure, which previously had been used only on cancer patients there.
