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.
Today at 14:00 a donor’s heart started to beat in the chest of 12-year-old Margarita. It was her only chance to live. Weakness is all in the past. Ahead, the girl is facing a long and happy life with a healthy heart.
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.
On the night of September 3, 2021, a heart transplant was performed at the Heart Institute. This is the sixth transplant in our clinic and the second in the last three days.
Tonight at the Heart Institute another person got a second chance at life. A heart transplant was performed on a 38-year-old man with a fourth blood type, which is quite rare. The transplant took 2 hours 5 minutes of ischemic time.
An 81-year-old patient with critical aortic stenosis recently applied to the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. However, an arrhythmia was also detected.
13-07-2021
Young doctors are our future, and it is necessary to invest in the future, especially knowledge. That is why Prof. Borys Todurov is doing everything possible to share his professional skills with the younger generation of doctors.
Recently, doctors at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine saved the life of a little French citizen who was only two days old. The girl had a rare pathology – transposition of the main vessels and a ventricular septal defect (dTMA + VSD).
The purpose of the three-hour multidisciplinary webinar was to acquaint physicians of various specialties with changes in approaches to the stratification of the risk of thromboembolic complications and antithrombotic therapy in patients with cardiovascular disease.
2021-06-30
Recently, at the Heart Institute, another implantation of a Micra miniature pacemaker by Medtronic was performed.
The operation was performed by the Head of the Department of Cardiac Arrhythmias, interventional arrhythmologist Oleksandr Grytsay. He is the only doctor in Ukraine who performs these operations.