We continue to learn from the best in order to save lives of our patients. Specialists of the Heart Institute visited the leading Cardiac Surgery Center of Germany in Homburg, Universitäts Klinikum des Saarlandes under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schäfers.
In Europe, the trend of cardiac surgery is rapidly developing towards minimal invasiveness. It is nice to realize that this trend is supported by the same quality in Ukraine. Our colleagues returned home with invaluable experience for saving Ukrainian patients and raising the status of our doctors in the international arena.
Alyona’s treatment was successful. She got rid of dialysis, is full of strength and energy, and smiles from happiness, and the team at the Heart Institute is happy that they were able to help!
For the first time, a heart was transplanted in the Sumy hospital. Heart transplantation in Kyiv was not possible due to the fact that the organ could not be delivered to the capital because the ischemic time was too long. Therefore, the entire team of the Heart Institute and the recipient went to Sumy, where the second heart transplant of this year took place.
The team of the Heart Institute urgently left for Lviv to perform a heart transplant, while colleagues from Lviv performed lung transplantation from a posthumous donor.
The birthday of the Heart Institute means 15 years of continuous development, new experience, and innovative opportunities for the sake of saving the lives of our citizens!
This is how well 14-year-old David looks and feels, whom Prof. Borys Todurov operated on for the first time 5 years ago, performing an extremely complex operation on a child’s heart, and now having operated on the boy for the second time. This was the same heart surgery during which, resulting from the Russian shelling, the light in the operating room went out for a while.
Actual approaches in methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, in accordance with international standards, allow for saving the lives of thousands of Ukrainians.
The event’s purpose was to increase doctors’ awareness of modern algorithms for the detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases at all stages of treatment.
Prof. Borys Todurov: “This is how the “Russian world” comes. Today’s rocket attack on Kyiv, November 23, 2022, took several lives of Kyivites and plunged the city into darkness and cold. The Heart Institute has 190 patients and 300 employees. There has been no water for several hours now while we are coping on our own, but it is getting harder every hour.
Despite these difficult times of Russian aggression in Ukraine, we continue to establish and develop cooperation with foreign colleagues, thereby bringing the level of Ukrainian medicine to the world level.