Recently at the Heart Institute, a transfemoral (implantation) implantation of the last-generation prosthesis of the aortic valve was conducted on an 84-year-old woman having been diagnosed with critical aortic stenosis with apparent calcification of the openings of the aortic valve.
Recently, at the Heart Institute, a transfemoral (implantation) implantation of the last-generation prosthesis of the aortic valve was conducted on an 84-year-old woman having been diagnosed with critical aortic stenosis with apparent calcification of the openings of the aortic valve.
The team of the Heart Institute led by Director of the Heart Institute Borys Todurov, once again operated in Georgia, this time in Tbilisi. Three Ozaki procedures were performed.
On July 6, 2018, two unique people with transplanted hearts – Ukrainian Eduard Sokolov and Frenchman Paul Baudry – met at the Heart Institute of the Heart. Edward’s heart was transplanted by Borys Todurov exactly 15 years ago – in July 2003. Paul received a new heart in 2009 at the Hopital de la Pitié clinic thanks to Dr. Aubert.
On July 5, 2018, a surgery of aortic valve replacement was conducted on a 45-year-old woman by Professor Borys Todurov at the Heart Institute. At the age of 16 the patient was diagnosed with an infective endocarditis of the aortic valve and in 1989 she was successfully operated. At that time a ball prosthesis of the aortic valve was implanted which successfully worked for 29 years. The surgery was completed successfully.
On June 27, 2018, at the conference hall of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, a meeting of doctors and patients with the famous Indian transplant doctor Dr. Komarakshi Balakishnan was held. In 2010, he transplanted the first heart, and now more than 250 transplants have been in the account, dozens […]
June 21-23, 2018, in the city of Shchetsin, the IX Congress of the Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons took place. The Congress has shown that the international interest in the experience of Ukrainian surgeons in Ozaki procedure is growing steadily. Igor Mokryk, Head of the Department of Surgical Methods for the Treatment of Acquired Heart […]
18-19 June 2018, the Aortic Valve Repair Summit took place in Paris. Igor Mokryk, Head of the Department of Surgical Methods for the Treatment of Acquired Heart Diseases, the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, shared the experience of the Institute’s specialists in Ozaki Procedure.
June 1, 2018
About 100 cardiologists, therapists, cardiac surgeons, resuscitators, anesthesiologists, and functional diagnostics physicians took part in the conference. The traditional main goal of the forum is to acquaint doctors of different specialties with the latest achievements in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology
A boy was born on the 27th week of pregnancy weighing just 870 g and having two congenital heart diseases – coarctation of the aorta and aortic hypoplasia, the Botallo’s foramen failed to close after birth as well. For a month, doctors in Rivne, Ukraine cared for the infant and then transported the boy to the Heart Institute where the surgery was successfully conducted by a team managed by cardiac surgeon Vasiliy Karpenko and anesthesiologist Iryna Galamai.