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.
Acquaintance with colleagues, exchange of knowledge and experience, study of the latest techniques in cardiac surgery and cardiology, and even heart and lung transplantation on one of the internship days – all this is growth, acquisition of experience and knowledge that doctors will implement at home, in Ukraine, saving life of Ukrainians.
Tonight, Prof. Borys Todurov performed a heart transplant in Zhytomyr. We thank the team of doctors of the Heart Institute and the Zhytomyr Regional Hospital. Young girl with a rare fourth blood type received a new heart.
We continue to learn from the best in order to save lives of our patients. Specialists of the Heart Institute visited the leading Cardiac Surgery Center of Germany in Homburg, Universitäts Klinikum des Saarlandes under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Schäfers.
In Europe, the trend of cardiac surgery is rapidly developing towards minimal invasiveness. It is nice to realize that this trend is supported by the same quality in Ukraine. Our colleagues returned home with invaluable experience for saving Ukrainian patients and raising the status of our doctors in the international arena.
Alyona’s treatment was successful. She got rid of dialysis, is full of strength and energy, and smiles from happiness, and the team at the Heart Institute is happy that they were able to help!
For the first time, a heart was transplanted in the Sumy hospital. Heart transplantation in Kyiv was not possible due to the fact that the organ could not be delivered to the capital because the ischemic time was too long. Therefore, the entire team of the Heart Institute and the recipient went to Sumy, where the second heart transplant of this year took place.
The team of the Heart Institute urgently left for Lviv to perform a heart transplant, while colleagues from Lviv performed lung transplantation from a posthumous donor.