A newborn from Zhytomyr Oblast, delivered a month ago at the 29th week of pregnancy with a weight of 1,400 g, was taken to the Heart Institute by an Ambulance with a diagnosis of subtotal thrombosis of the right atrium and floating thrombus of the left atrium.
The 28th Annual Congress was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 14 – 15 September 2018.
On September 13, 2018, in the Kiev Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the first in the new academic year registered scientific-practical conference “Venous Thromboembolism: New Approaches to Diagnostics and Treatment” took place. The idea of the conference was to discuss current guidelines for the diagnostics and treatment of venous thrombosis, pulmonary emboli, and post-thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
On September 6-7, 2018, the International Conference “Actual Problems of Diagnostics and Treatment of Cerebrovascular Diseases” was held in Odessa, in the multidisciplinary private clinic Medical Hub Odrex, where new technologies of treatment in cardiac surgery and X-ray endovascular surgery were discussed.
On August 30, 2018, at the Heart Institute, Kyiv, the world-renowned doctor of medical philosophy, professor of cardiac surgery Rimantas Benetis, together with Doctor of Medical Sciences Borys Todurov, conducted a complex surgery (the David procedure) on the reconstruction of the aortic root including correction of the valve’s cusps and replacement of a part of the aorta. The patient was a 13-year-old boy with a rare genetic condition, Marfan syndrome.
Masha Abu Rumaila is four and a half years old. She was born in Makeyevka, Donetsk region, but now lives in Palestine. At birth, she was diagnosed with a critical congenital heart disease, a functionally single ventricle. The first two heart surgeries were made by the cardiac surgeon Igor Mokrik in Donetsk in 2014. The third, final and most complicated Fontan procedure, was successfully conducted by Igor Mokrik at the Heart Institute, Kyiv, on August 8, 2018.
On August 6, 2018, at the Heart Institute, Kyiv, a team of doctors – Vasyl Karpenko, Volodymyr Vashkeba, Irina Galamay – successfully operated a premature baby with a diagnosis of congenital heart defect – a critical coarctation of the aorta. The surgery lasted 4 hours. On August 8, the baby was breathing on his own […]
The patient is a 62-year old man with a diagnosis – isolated severe mitral insufficiency. In the presence of concomitant pathology, an open operation was contraindicated. At the Heart Institute, the patient had an endovascular prosthetics of the mitral valve.
Recently, at the Heart Institute, a transfemoral (implantation) implantation of the last-generation prosthesis of the aortic valve was conducted on an 84-year-old woman having been diagnosed with critical aortic stenosis with apparent calcification of the openings of the aortic valve.
The team of the Heart Institute led by Director of the Heart Institute Borys Todurov, once again operated in Georgia, this time in Tbilisi. Three Ozaki procedures were performed.