By: Times of Oman

Muscat: A surgical team at the Department of Vascular Surgery at Sultan Qaboos Hospital in Salalah has managed to save the life of a sixty-year-old patient hailing from Yemen. The patient was suffering from continuous hemoptysis with high fever and shortness of breath.

The patient's condition was diagnosed after conducting the necessary examinations and it was found that there was an inflamed aneurysm in the wall of the thoracic aorta that was about to burst, with infiltration in both lungs.