On May 14, 2020, the aortic arthroplasty of a giant aneurysm of the thoracic aorta was performed by the head of the Department of Angiography and Endovascular Surgery Andriy Khokhlov with a team of doctors – Oleg Zelenchuk, Maria Slyubyk, Kostyantyn Boiko. The patient feels well after the surgery.
A patient born in 1983 with an aneurysm in the area of brachiocephalic vessels with aortic coarctation.
The planned implantation of a mechanical heart was actually postponed due to the inability to come for foreign specialists. Time is running out, the quarantine is extended, but Yevgen’s heart cannot wait …
For the first time in 61 years, a patient with ALCAPA syndrome received arterial blood in the left coronary artery thanks to the team of the Heart Institute headed by the director of the Institute, Professor Borys Todurov.
Director of the Heart Institute Professor Boris Todurov: “The Heart Institute temporarily suspends planned operations, only emergency patients with a diagnosis are hospitalized: acute ischemia – acute coronary syndrome (myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary arrhythmia, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary embolism). If necessary, the Heart Institute will be able to hospitalize difficult patients who will need artificial lung ventilation and ECMO.
Surgery to correct the ascending aortic aneurysm: Huge aortic aneurysm in a young man – 8 cm. Our task: to replace the aortic valve and ascending aorta – it’s just a bomb that can explode at any time.
In the past, he was an ambulance driver. He survived two heart attacks, his heart was critically affected, only a transplant could save…
At the Heart Institute, a 31-year-old woman with a heart defect – mitral valve stenosis – gave birth to a healthy baby girl with a caesarean section conducted by a gynecologists’ team led by Prof. V. Kaminsky together with the doctors of the Heart Institute headed by the director of the Institute Prof. Borys Todurov.
Hybrid operation in 2 stages. The operation lasts an average of 5 hours.
Prof. Borys Todurov: “Impossible becomes possible! Another heart transplantation has been conducted in Kovel. Excellent work of a large team of specialists it was. A unique regional hospital shows an example throughout Ukraine.”