June 9, 2020, despite the ongoing pandemic, specialists of the children’s department of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine continue saving lives and fight for the health of children with congenital heart defects. The infant was admitted to the ward at the age of 12 days, weighing only 3.2 kg with a diagnosis of Hemitruncus Arteriosus.
On June 6, 2020, a surgery to remove acute thrombosis from the common iliac vein was performed at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. With this disease, the patient can very quickly be at risk of massive pulmonary embolism.
On May 21, 2020, the mini mechanical Heart Medtronic Heart Ware 3 was implanted at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. This model is being implanted in the clinic for the third time. For the Institute, this was a unique operation, because it did not involve proctors (the manufacturer’s representatives).
It is not the first time that doctors of the Heart Institute together with colleagues from Kovel Regional Hospital save the patient’s heart through joint efforts in Kovel. This time a 16-year-old boy with a rupture of the thoracic aorta is the patient.
On May 14, 2020, the aortic arthroplasty of a giant aneurysm of the thoracic aorta was performed by the head of the Department of Angiography and Endovascular Surgery Andriy Khokhlov with a team of doctors – Oleg Zelenchuk, Maria Slyubyk, Kostyantyn Boiko. The patient feels well after the surgery.
The planned implantation of a mechanical heart was actually postponed due to the inability to come for foreign specialists. Time is running out, the quarantine is extended, but Yevgen’s heart cannot wait …
Director of the Heart Institute Professor Boris Todurov: “The Heart Institute temporarily suspends planned operations, only emergency patients with a diagnosis are hospitalized: acute ischemia – acute coronary syndrome (myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary arrhythmia, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary embolism). If necessary, the Heart Institute will be able to hospitalize difficult patients who will need artificial lung ventilation and ECMO.
In the past, he was an ambulance driver. He survived two heart attacks, his heart was critically affected, only a transplant could save…
At the Heart Institute, a 31-year-old woman with a heart defect – mitral valve stenosis – gave birth to a healthy baby girl with a caesarean section conducted by a gynecologists’ team led by Prof. V. Kaminsky together with the doctors of the Heart Institute headed by the director of the Institute Prof. Borys Todurov.
Prof. Borys Todurov: “Impossible becomes possible! Another heart transplantation has been conducted in Kovel. Excellent work of a large team of specialists it was. A unique regional hospital shows an example throughout Ukraine.”