Mattia and his twin sister were born prematurely, at 25 weeks, with extremely low body weight, only 600 grams, and also with a congenital heart defect. The babies were raised in one of the perinatal centers of Kyiv for almost a month so that they would grow up a little.
Despite the war, we do everything possible to give our patients a new life. Tonight, a transplant took place at the Heart Institute – 20-year-old Sofia from the Donetsk region received her new heart after a whole year of waiting.
Recently, at the Heart Institute, a patient from Rivne with a diagnosis of polycystic disease with damage to the kidneys and liver underwent remedial nephrectomy – one of the stages of preparing patients with polycystic kidney disease for transplantation.
Prof. Borys Todurov and the team of the Heart Institute operated on a Ukrainian soldier with a bullet wound to the lung.
Since the 1st day of the war, the Heart Institute has provided 24/7 assistance to patients with heart, lung, and vascular injuries
For Elena from the Rivne region, the long-awaited pregnancy was a joy, but at the 31st week of pregnancy, the doctors of the Rivne regional perinatal center were forced to perform an emergency caesarean section, as the child’s life was under a threat.
The baby was born weighing 1,490 grams.
Usually, we perceive a “parent-child” couple as parents and small children, but in fact, at any age, parents are ready for anything for the sake of the salvation and happiness of their children.
Victor’s father, without thinking twice, gave a kidney to his son, having made an instant decision when it became clear that it was needed here and now.
Thursday and Friday this week at the Heart Institute turned out to be very fruitful – two heart transplants were successfully performed by Gavrylo Kovtun and a team of doctors of the Heart Institute. Two women received new hearts – a 53-year-old patient from Kyiv and a 48-year-old patient from Zaporizhzhia.
Our team performed transplantation of hearts and kidneys in Lutsk – in the organ transplantation department of the Volyn Regional Clinical Hospital together with colleagues of this institution.
A 29-year-old young man from Khmelnytskyi received the heart.
32-year-old Volodymyr from Kyiv received the heart.
A trip from Kyiv to Lutsk was needed because the donor was in Lutsk, and it was not possible to deliver the donor’s heart from there to Kyiv. Therefore, our team together with our patient headed to Lutsk where the transplantation was carried out that night.
Cardiac surgeon and director of the Heart Institute Prof. Borys Todurov removed a fragment of a projectile from the heart of a Ukrainian soldier, the heart continued to beat during the operation.