Professor Borys Todurov noted the importance of introducing modern educational programs in highly specialized aspects of cardiology, interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery, and related specialties.
The aortic valve replacement was performed to a patient with an advanced aortic heart defect, pronounced aortic stenosis, in Sumy on Vysyvanka Day.
This is a new advance in the development of the Heart Institute and Ukrainian transplantology itself. We are doing our best to increase the number of such operations in the future.
Doctors of the Heart Institute continue to hold the medical front in different corners of Ukraine, winning new victories in the fight for the healthy hearts of Ukrainians. Our Sumy colleagues’ close cooperation and trust provide new opportunities for developing cardiac surgery.
Every day our doctors aim to be the best in order to provide the best level of medical care in Ukraine. Behind this credo is the daily hard work and dedication of each of the Heart Institute’s employees.
The recipient was a 49-year-old man from the Kyiv region with a frightening diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy. We thank the entire team of the Heart Institute and colleagues from the Poltava Regional Clinical Hospital named after M. Sklifosovsky.
When stenting does not solve the problem, and even the installed cardioverter-defibrillator no longer helps to establish the correct heart rhythm, and the patient might be doomed – the team of transplant specialists of the Heart Institute gets down to brass tacks.
On this challenging night, two heart transplants were performed simultaneously by two teams of the Heart Institute. Despite the nightly air-raid alarm and shelling, the doctors did everything possible to save the patients.
Little Milana was born prematurely, at 24 weeks of pregnancy, with an extremely low body weight – only 600 grams, and also with a congenital heart defect – an open ductus arteriosus, which usually closes after the birth of a child during the first days of life.
Tonight, a team of doctors from the Heart Institute performed the first heart transplant in the city of Odesa. The patient is a young 44-year-old man from the Mykolaiv region, who has been on the transplant waiting list for more than a year.