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.
11.03.2022
These days, the wounded persons were rescued at the Heart Institute: a young woman who received a missile wound – shell fraction stuck near the heart near the ribs, and a 40-year-old man being shot by a 5.45 bullet in the lungs.
They are civilians – a car with people was shot by Russian terrorists in the Irpen region.
Our clinic was one of the first to take over the medical front in Ukraine.
Immediately after the first explosions in Kyiv, the Institute’s team was fully operational and ready to receive not only cardiac patients, but also wounded and injured military servicemen and civilians.
The Heart Institute is more than a hospital. For us and many of our patients, this is a place where they the lives are saved, a place of help and hope for the best
Under support of the Pakistani Embassy in Ukraine, Director of the Heart Institute Borys Todurov and Head of the Department of Acquired Heart Diseases of the Heart Institute Igor Mokryk visited Pakistan.
It was the 25th transplant performed by Prof. Borys Todurov and his team. 15 of them were performed at the Institute, 10 – in other regions of Ukraine.
This case was unique because, for the first time in Ukraine, the transplantation of two organs took place simultaneously. Everything went well. The patient is Vsevolod, a 52-year-old resident of Kyiv who has been on hemodialysis for the past 16 years because of kidney failure.