The heart was received by the 49-year-old patient from Mykolaiv who moved to Kiev after the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. He had to leave Kyiv for his new heart, because the donor was in Lutsk, and it was not possible to deliver the donor’s heart from there. So, our brigade drove with the patient all night to get to Lutsk as soon as possible.
Mykolai Medvedev is the first patient in Ukraine to undergo both stages of treatment – 1.5 years ago he had a mechanical heart implanted in the Heart Institute, and three weeks ago a donor heart was transplanted to him.
We continue to save our patients even in times of war.
A new heart beats in the chest of a 49-year-old man from Mariupol, who had suffered from cardiomyopathy in recent years.
15.06.2022
Today was a significant event – for the first time at the Heart Institute, a family kidney transplant was performed: a mother donated a kidney to her 37-year-old son, who had been on dialysis for a long time. At the moment, both mother and son are feeling well, the kidney is working and the patients are undergoing planned postoperative rehabilitation!
This visit took place at the invitation of Georgian colleagues and our good friends at the same time.
It was also an additional opportunity to spread information about the war in Ukraine.
The Georgian colleagues understand us better than anyone.
For the first time in Ukraine, Prof. Borys Todurov and a team of doctors from the Heart Institute performed two heart transplants on patients aged 39 and 67 who had mechanical hearts implanted about two years ago.
Consultation was provided to 157 adult patients with cardiovascular pathology against a background of post-traumatic stress disorder, including patients with exacerbation of chronic coronary heart disease, critical hypertension and severe cardiac arrhythmias.
Cooperation between the Heart Institute and Sumy Regional Clinical Cardiology Dispensary has been going on for about 10 years and is expressed not only in on-site consultations of our specialists, but also in comprehensive support when there is a need for a collegial decision on difficult patients and operations.
06.05.2022
Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our delegation could not be present in London, but on behalf of the ECMO Center of the SI “HI of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” and the PO “Association of Anesthesiologists, Perfusiologists and Intensive Care Physicians” perfusionist Stepan Maruniak told about our experience ECMO in patients with ARDS caused by COVID-19.
Unfortunately, the branch of the Heart Institute in Irpen is currently unable to receive patients due to destruction, abuse, and looting by the Russian invaders – the equipment worth millions of hryvnias and recently purchased for the branch was ruthlessly smashed. The premises are almost destroyed and distorted by traces of these non-humans. All that they could not take with them was shot and destructed.