News

Endovascular Closure of Paravalvular Fistula of Aortic Valve

November, 15, 2021

In January 2021, the Institute was visited by a 53-year-old patient for a routine examination after aortic valve grafting in 2002. He complained of shortness of breath during exercise, which has increased over the past 6 months.

Fifth Heart Transplant in a Month

October, 21, 2021

The fifth heart transplant of this month took place tonight at the Heart Institute. It was difficult because the patient has already undergone more than one heart operation. In 2004, he underwent implantation of an aortic valve prosthesis at the Institute, but 17 years later he needed a transplant. The operation lasted 1.5 hours, everything went well.

Surgery of the Baby Six Hours After Birth

October, 15, 2021

At the Heart Institute, a surgery was performed on the heart of little Maya 6 hours after birth with a diagnosis of critical aortic stenosis. We had known the girl’s mother much earlier, to whom Prof. Borys Todurov implanted an aortic valve prosthesis in 2004.

Endarterectomy of the Internal Carotid Artery and TAVI

October, 1, 2021

In practice, the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine sometimes has extremely difficult cases when patients have only one chance at life. And we use all the possibilities of our Institute to save them.

First in the History of Ukraine Heart Transplantation for a Child!

September, 21, 2021

This is a unique operation for our country and an extremely important page in the history of cardiac transplantation. The patient is a 13-year-old boy Maxym from the Volyn region, whose condition was critical. The transplant was successful. The child got a chance for long and happy life.