The main purpose of the event was to discuss controversial aspects of the management of patients with heart failure, in particular, drug therapy and indications for the use of devices and cardiac surgical interventions.
The team of cardiac surgeons decided to perform aortic valve prosthetics with aortic root enlargement using the Y-incision method. The operation was successful. An echocardiogram shows an excellent result.
For the first time in Ukraine, a live online broadcast of aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was held from the operating room of the Heart Institute, during which the team of our clinic implanted the most modern valve of the latest generation, Evolut Pro+ from Medtronic.
We are grateful to Senator Bill Frist, M.D., President of Belmont University Dr. L. Gregory Jones, Dean Thomas F. Frist Jr., College of Medicine, Dr. Morgan Wills, Dr. Anderson Pickard, Dr. Ron Loeppke, Dawn Houston Eck, Peace and Development Foundation Chairman Rostyslav Semikov for their support and help.
The training continues, and we will share interesting information with you. Very soon, we will implement the new knowledge and experience gained within the walls of the Heart Institute.
All for the health of our patients. We are moving Ukrainian medicine and transplantology forward!
We congratulate our Czech colleagues for achieving excellent results in treating heart pathology and express our sincere gratitude for their willingness to share their experiences with Ukrainian doctors.
A complex and lengthy operation, lasting about 10 hours, took place in Lviv in cooperation with the teams of the Heart Institute and Lviv colleagues of the Saint Panteleimon Hospital, the First Medical Association of Lviv, and gave a chance for a new life to 38-year-old Nina from the Kyiv region.
The implementation of the scientific program became possible thanks to the efforts of the department heads, leading specialists of the Heart Institute, and departments of the Shupyk National University of Health Care of Ukraine.
Under the slogan “Raising the bar,” the attendees were presented with the latest technologies in cardio- and thoracic surgery, master classes shared by leading specialists from around the world.
The patient was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her breast, which required surgical treatment. But preoperative diagnostics revealed another unpleasant “surprise” – a heart disease: arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy with severe mitral valve insufficiency.