It was a difficult year, but we survived it with dignity. Hundreds of patients treated with Covid-19, thousands operated this year, we performed 9 out of 10 transplants made in Ukraine, implanted a pacemaker in a pregnant patient, the weight of our youngest patient was 900 g, and the age of our oldest patient was 101 years.
Borys Todurov, Director of the Heart Institute, together with doctors of the clinic – Head of Acquired Heart Diseases Igor Mokryk and Head of Anesthesiology Mykola Honcharenko, visited the Scientific and Clinical Center of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology of Taraz, Kazakhstan.
Recently an operation for the closure of the paravalvular fistula of the mitral valve with apical access was performed by a multidisciplinary team of doctors from the Heart Institute.
The whole team of the Heart Institute is extremely excited – today another heart transplant took place at the Institute.
On November 20, 2020, the sixth heart transplant in Ukraine in 11 months took place in Lviv. The transplant was performed by prof. Borys Todurov with a team of doctors of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine together with Lviv colleagues led by Oleh Samchuk, Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medicine of Lviv.
On November 19-20, 2020, the XII scientific-practical online conference with international participation “Days of Arrhythmology in Kyiv” took place on the basis of the Department of Functional Diagnostics of the Heart Institute. The topics of this year’s conference covered the most modern aspects of interventional arrhythmology and medical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
On October 30, 2020, the sixth annual registered scientific-practical online conference “Current Issues of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery” took place at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
On October 19, 2020, at the Heart Institute, Kyiv, the first stage of the endovascular prosthesis of critical aortic valve stenosis (TAVR) was performed in a 56-year-old patient from Kryvyi Rih who was preparing for a liver transplant because of liver cirrhosis.
A two-chamber pacemaker was implanted in a 28-year-old pregnant patient with a diagnosis of transient AV-blockade of the third degree at the Heart Institute.
Back in 2015, the patient was diagnosed with a first-degree AV blockade. Being at 8 weeks of pregnancy, the patient’s condition worsened.
Five patients, Vasyl from Zakarpattia, Viktor from Kyiv, Petro from Zhytomyr Region, Vasyl from Chernivtsi, Sviatoslav from Kyiv received donor hearts from December 2019 to August 2020 in Ukraine! Four of them gathered in the Heart Institute recently.