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Replacement of ball aortic valve prosthesis after 29 years of work

On July 5, 2018, a surgery of aortic valve replacement was conducted on a 45-year-old woman by Professor Borys Todurov at the Heart Institute. At the age of 16 the patient was diagnosed with an infective endocarditis of the aortic valve and in 1989 she was successfully operated. At that time a ball prosthesis of the aortic valve was implanted which successfully worked for 29 years. The surgery was completed successfully.

Visit of the renowned Indian transplantologist Dr. K. R. Balakrishnan to the Heart Institute

On June 27, 2018, at the conference hall of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, a meeting of doctors and patients with the famous Indian transplant doctor Dr. Komarakshi Balakishnan was held. In 2010, he transplanted the first heart, and now more than 250 transplants have been in the account, dozens […]

IX Congress of the Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons

June 21-23, 2018, in the city of Shchetsin, the IX Congress of the Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons took place. The Congress has shown that the international interest in the experience of Ukrainian surgeons in Ozaki procedure is growing steadily. Igor Mokryk, Head of the Department of Surgical Methods for the Treatment of Acquired Heart […]

Aortic Valve Repair Summit in Paris

 18-19 June 2018, the Aortic Valve Repair Summit took place in Paris. Igor Mokryk, Head of the Department of Surgical Methods for the Treatment of Acquired Heart Diseases, the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, shared the experience of the Institute’s specialists in Ozaki Procedure.

IV Scientific conference “Actual questions of cardiology and cardiac surgery”

June 1, 2018
About 100 cardiologists, therapists, cardiac surgeons, resuscitators, anesthesiologists, and functional diagnostics physicians took part in the conference. The traditional main goal of the forum is to acquaint doctors of different specialties with the latest achievements in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology

For the first time in Ukraine a successful operation was performed to eliminate coarctation of the aorta in a baby weighing 1 kg

Until recently, such a small weight (up to 1 kg) was considered almost a sentence, and children with such weight haven’t been operated for congenital heart disease.

For the first time in Ukraine – implantation of the last generation of aortic valve endoprostheses at the Heart Institute

March, 29, 2018
The patient, 75 years old, had a complex combined lesion of the aortic valve (a combined aortic defect with a predominance of stenosis), a marked loss of ascending aortic calcinosis and a number of concomitant diseases, which combined risk the traditional operation to be extremely high. Endovascular implantation of the aortic valve was the only opportunity to save his life.

II International Conference “Reconstructive Surgery of the Heart” was held in Kiev

November 23-24, 2017

Leading cardiac surgeons from the USA, Germany, Lithuania, Great Britain, Belarus, Poland, Romania, Greece, Georgia, Moldova took part in the event.
The Congress was not just a cycle of reports of outstanding cardiac surgeons – it was a meeting of like-minded people, masters of their cause; a gathering of a united world team who are most anxious to save human lives.