The surgery was complicated. The mechanical heart was not sutured to the normal myocardium: the patient had a thinned and not sufficiently dense aneurysm, so first a tricuspid valve plastic surgery and resection of a giant postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm were performed, and then a mechanical heart was sutured to the remains of the aneurysm.
A 78-year-old patient underwent septal alcohol ablation of an obstructive form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy last year, and after a reduction in the gradient, TAVI procedure was performed in safer conditions (to avoid suicide ventricle syndrome). The patient was discharged home in good condition.
With this operation, the specialists of the Heart Institute continue to introduce cosmetic accesses in patients with congenital heart defects. The method has significant advantages: it reduces the risk of complications, shortens the rehabilitation period, and in the long run, the results of the cosmetic intervention are much more effective.
It was a difficult year, but we survived it with dignity. Hundreds of patients treated with Covid-19, thousands operated this year, we performed 9 out of 10 transplants made in Ukraine, implanted a pacemaker in a pregnant patient, the weight of our youngest patient was 900 g, and the age of our oldest patient was 101 years.
Borys Todurov, Director of the Heart Institute, together with doctors of the clinic – Head of Acquired Heart Diseases Igor Mokryk and Head of Anesthesiology Mykola Honcharenko, visited the Scientific and Clinical Center of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology of Taraz, Kazakhstan.
Recently an operation for the closure of the paravalvular fistula of the mitral valve with apical access was performed by a multidisciplinary team of doctors from the Heart Institute.
The whole team of the Heart Institute is extremely excited – today another heart transplant took place at the Institute.
On November 20, 2020, the sixth heart transplant in Ukraine in 11 months took place in Lviv. The transplant was performed by prof. Borys Todurov with a team of doctors of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine together with Lviv colleagues led by Oleh Samchuk, Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medicine of Lviv.
On November 19-20, 2020, the XII scientific-practical online conference with international participation “Days of Arrhythmology in Kyiv” took place on the basis of the Department of Functional Diagnostics of the Heart Institute. The topics of this year’s conference covered the most modern aspects of interventional arrhythmology and medical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
On October 30, 2020, the sixth annual registered scientific-practical online conference “Current Issues of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery” took place at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.