Under the slogan “Raising the bar,” the attendees were presented with the latest technologies in cardio- and thoracic surgery, master classes shared by leading specialists from around the world.
The patient was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her breast, which required surgical treatment. But preoperative diagnostics revealed another unpleasant “surprise” – a heart disease: arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy with severe mitral valve insufficiency.
Representing the Heart Institute and all of Ukraine in the international medical arena, Prof. Borys Todurov received an award for the best report.
In general, the conference reflected the implementation of several priority areas of cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology in the work of the Heart Institute – one of the leading cardiac surgical and cardiology centers of Ukraine.
The 25th successful heart transplant for this year took place in cooperation with our colleagues from the Poltava Regional Hospital named after Sklifosovsky. This time, our team saved as many as four lives.
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson.
On August 30, a remarkable event united the country’s cardiac surgeons – a meeting with our compatriot, Serguei Melnitchouk, a cardiac surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, USA).
Today, a solemn press conference, “Life goes on,” was held, dedicated to the first child-to-child heart transplant in Ukraine, to draw public attention to the achievements of Ukrainian medicine and the importance of the culture of donation.
The first heart operation in Bancheny (Chernivtsi region) at the St. Luke’s clinic.
At the Heart Institute, a 6-year-old girl received a heart transplant, for which she had been waiting for 1.5 years. The uniqueness of this transplantation lies in the fact that the donor was a child for the first time in Ukraine.
Yuliana calls July 8 her second birthday because it was on this day that her transplant took place.
17-year-old Yuliana was in the intensive care unit of the Heart Institute for a month, waiting for a donor organ.