In a first, hospital in Oman succeeds in performing rare throat surgery

Muscat: Al Nahda Hospital has succeeded in performing a surgery to treat a case of pubertal hypophonia for a 22-year-old man. The operation is the first of its kind in the Sultanate.

 A medical team specialised in the Otolaryngology Unit at Al Nahda Hospital succeeded in performing a surgical operation, the first of its kind in the Sultanate of Oman. It consisted in treating a case of pubertal hypophonia for a 22-year-old boy.

 Dr. Shaden bint Zakaria Al Riyami, Consultant Ear, Nose, Throat, and Vocal Cord Surgeon, Head of the Medical Team, explained that the the pubertal voice deficiency is the continuation of the teenage voice after puberty and its instability on a certain level.

This condition is one of the cases that affects one in every 900,000 people.

Al Riyami said that the operation aimed to restructure the larynx to reduce the pitch of the patient's voice and give him a masculine voice. The operation took about two and a half hours, and it was done under local anesthesia in order to be able to evaluate the patient's voice during the operation.

 Dr. Shaden Al Riyami received her training in the field of vocal cord surgery in the United Kingdom, to be the first surgeon specialising in this field in the Sultanate.