Our Story of Success

At Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, we strive to elevate the standard of healthcare in the region. Innovation is instrumental in allowing us to achieve this mission.

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Clinical Firsts & Medical Innovations

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is committed to, and passionate about, innovation across all its Institutes. Drawing on the legacy of Cleveland Clinic, US, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi always places innovation at the core of its mission. As a result, since opening in 2015, the hospital has provided an advanced healthcare ecosystem for the UAE and wider region, offering complex patient care for the benefit of generations to come.

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

• Resection of IVC tumor thrombus, including retro hepatic exposure
• Laparoscopic resection of endovascular coils in ovarian vein
• Recanalization of chronically occluded inferior vena cava and iliac veins
• Orbital atherectomy in coronary and peripheral interventions
• Region’s first pascal transcatheter mitral valve repair
• World’s first surgical repair of enlarged aorta using a modified branch-first surgical technique to reduce the risk involved in aortic aneurysm surgery
• UAE’s first Tricuspid Clip heart procedure performed
• UAE’s first combined Heart-Lung Transplant

Neurological Institute

• UAE’s first awake brain surgery
• UAE’s first Botox treatment for movement disorders
• UAE’s first multidisciplinary DBS for movement disorder
• UAE’s first epilepsy brain surgery with multimodal electrophysiology EcoG
• UAE’s first use of intrasaccular WEB device in intracranial vascular disease
• Innovative peripheral nerve stimulation treatment that offers a significant long lasting reduction in pain for nerve and musculoskeletal pain
• UAE’s first use of RAPID software to improve Stroke care
• 3D-print planning for complex spinal and cranial cases full endoscopic spine surgery
• UAE’s first deep brain stimulation operation to reduce symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease
• UAE’s first Dopa-Pump surgery
• GCC region’s first Surpass Flow-Diverter
• UAE’s first SEEG procedure for epilepsy

Cancer Institute

• UAE’s first use of Ethos Adaptive Radiation Oncology treatment

Integrated Surgical Institute

• UAE’s first simultaneous robotic kidney transplant
• UAE’s first bilateral kidney transplant from a deceased donor
• UAE’s first triple kidney swap transplant
• robotic breast mastectomy robotic breast mastectomy
• Region’s first use of aqua-ablation for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia
• World’s first transatlantic Focal Therapy for prostate cancer

Digestive Disease Institute

• Region’s first robotic gastric pacemaker
• First hospital in the GCC to provide home total parenteral nutrition
• GCC’s first STEP procedure
• UAE’s first robotic revisional bariatric operation
• UAE’s first ‘own’ kidney transplant performed on a patient after removing it to excise a cancerous tumour
• UAE’s first and only multi-organ transplant facility