In addition to the lecture, there was a warm meeting with the Ukrainian community of Philadelphia. Thank you to the Jefferson Heart Institute team for the warm welcome. Special thanks to the director Prof. Rene Alvarez and medical director Prof. Thomas Howard Eizen.
For the first time, a report on the work of our transplant team during the war was presented for active participation at the European Congress of Cardiothoracic Surgeons. We thank the organizers for the opportunity to present Ukraine at such an important congress.
A little more than a month has passed since the heart transplant and we see a beautiful woman, wife, and mother of three children, smiling, walking, and enjoying life. We rejoice together with her and wish her a long and happy life!
Based on the positive reviews of the reviewers and taking into account the results of the scientific discussion, the works of postgraduate students of the department are recommended for awarding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Today we celebrate life and the chance that we, as doctors, get to save it thanks to the difficult and vital decision of the donor families.
Recently, our team performed an extremely complex operation on 87-year-old Kim Pylypovich. Imagine: a person is almost 90 years old, yet he is ready to fight for her health and the joy of life!
The team of the Heart Institute performed a successful heart transplant at the Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Hospital. This is already the 104th heart transplant of the team in the last three years.
During the week, doctors improved their professional skills, got acquainted with new approaches in cardiac surgery and transplantology, and studied the experience of Turkish colleagues in conducting minimally invasive operations.
A few years ago, each of these operations was an event, and people excitedly followed the work of the doctors, the courage of the patients, and the greatness of the decision of the donors’ families with sinking hearts.
Doctors from the Heart Institute presented our experience in using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Head of the scientific Department of Kidney Transplantation and Hemodialysis, PhD, Anesthesiologist Stepan Maruniak, made a report analyzing the main features of our ECMO center’s work during war.