On April 2012, the new phase of social project ” Warmth of Hearts” has started.

The organizer of the project was company “Eurocar” with SKODA dealer network in Ukraine, which has been supporting Kyiv City Heart Center for several years.

May 15, 2012 Scientific Conference “Revascularization in patients with ischemic heart disease” was held at Kiev Heart Center

May 18-19 2012 , team of experts from the Kiev Heart Center led by Prof. Boris Todurov visited Moldova.

May 29, 2012 the scientific conference “Atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease” was held at the Kiev City Heart Center

June 01, 2012 TVs and DVD-players were installed in the wards of the hospital on the 1st of June – the International Children’s Day. Our Foundation, “Heart on your palm”, turned to “Eurocar” Company as their friend and partner in the social project ” Warmth of Hearts”, to ensure all wards of children’s department of…

June, 2012 During the year, a team of doctors from Kyiv City Heart Center, led by Director Prof. Boris Todurov, were performing humanitarian services in Georgia. Despite the fact that in recent years the country has significantly increased its economic output, the social and cultural aspects, the level of cardiac surgery is still quite basic….

October 2012, the Kyiv Heart Center, Ukraine for the first time performed successful connection procedure, the so-called “artificial lung” or ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) for 5 months old child.

November 7, 2012 The Kiev Municipal Heart Center, today announced that it will perform a revolutionary bioresorbable vascular scaffold by ABSORB, this will be the first time such surgery has ever been carried out in Eastern Europe and Russia.

November 10, 2012 the first meeting of the club, “Weight loss winners” was held at the Keiv Heart Center

November 21-23, 2012 the IV Scientific Seminar: “Days of arrhythmology in Kiev” was held

November 23, 2012 The problems of cardiology and cardiac surgery were discussed at a meeting which was held by the Prime Minister of Ukraine M. Azarov with country leading physicians.

December 20, 2012 on the 5th anniversary of the Kyiv Municipal Heart Center opening a scientific and practical seminar “Actual problems of treatment of chronic heart failure” took place at the Kyiv City Heart Center

March 29, 2013 the Scientific conference, “Symptomatic arterial hypertension” was held at the Kyiv City Heart Center

March 31, 2013 three surgeries of ligation of the arterial open duct were performed by surgeons of the Kiev Heart Center at The Republican Perinatal Center (Crimea) KRU “KTMO “University Hospital”.

April 12, 2013 National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P.L. Shupik and Kyiv City Heart Center have hosted their first scientific conference: “Functional diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases”

April 19, 2013 Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Vladimir at his residence in the Holy Dormition Kyiv -Pechersk Lavra met with the director of the Kyiv City Heart Center , chief heart surgeon of Ministry of health of Ukraine, Professor Boris Todurov

April 20, 2013 the Kiev Heart Center hosted the second meeting of the club: “Weight loss winners”

April 24, 2013, Simferopol.
Between KRA KTMO “University Hospital” led by director Peter Mihalchevsky and KMKL Kyiv City Heart Center led by director Mr Boris Todurov was signed a cooperation agreement.

April 25, 2013 Conference “Metabolic syndrome and several aspects of Laboratory Diagnostics” took place at the Kiev Heart Center

July 13, 2013 in perinatal center KRU “KTMO “University Hospital” for a day were successfully performed 4 closing of the arterial duct in newborns.

October 24, 2013 interactive scientific and practical workshop “Actual aspects of treatment of heart failure “ was held at the Kyiv City Heart Center.

November 21-22, 2013 the V Scientific Seminar: “Days of arrhythmology in Kiev” was held at the Kyiv City Heart Center where questions relevant to arrhythmology were addressed

February 1, 2014 at the Institute of Heart the unique surgery was successfully performed– cesarean section of patient with pulmonary embolism at 34 weeks of gestation.

February 28, 2014 Conference with international participation “Current issues of cardiology and cardiac surgery” was held at the Institute of Heart

March 21, 2014 the second scientific conference: “Functional diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases” was held at the State Institution “Institute of Heart of Ministry of Health of Ukraine”

March 27, 2014 the scientific conference “Complex congenital heart defects” was held at the Kiev Institute of Heart

April 5, 2014 the Kiev Heart Center hosted the third meeting of the club: “Weight loss winners”

June 12, 2014 the Workshop “Stroke and atrial fibrillation” was held at the Kiev Institute of Heart

18-07-14
The youngest patient weighing just 680 grams was operated in the children’s department of the Heart Institute

29-07-14
Kiev Heart Institute has actively joined the campaign to support the Army of Ukraine

05-08-14
Operation for ligation of patent ductus arteriosus was performed in the department of neonatal and premature intensive care in special incubator, which is transforming into a heated mini operating table.

October 10, 2014 – the International Symposium of the Clinic AG Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw and SI “Institute for Heart of Health Ministry of Ukraine” was held at the Heart Institute in Kiev under the honorary patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine.

October 23, 2014
The Heart Institute has received assistance from the International Red Cross as a wound dressing for patients from the area of the ATO. Recently Heart Institute has increased the number of patients wounded in zone of ATO, as military such civilian patients.

October 31, 2014
Scientific conference “Atherosclerosis and the new European guidelines for myocardial revascularization” was held at the basis of the Kiev Heart Institute.

November 13, 2014

Scientific conference: “Actual problems of cardiology and cardiac surgery” was held at Heart Institute under the honorary patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine.
Was held a master class of treatment of complex cases of hypertension (high blood pressure).

November 20-21, 2014

VI scientific seminar: “Days of arrhythmology in Kiev” which examined the topical issues of arrhythmology was held at Kiev Heart Institute.

November 28, 2014

In cooperation with specialists from the Institute of surgery named after Shalimov carried out a unique operation at the Heart Institute: the elimination of renal artery stenosis with subsequent autotransplantation of kidney into the abdominal aorta.

December 15, 2014

A child with congenital heart disease and a rare co-morbidity – unbalanced chromosomal abnormality (breakdown of the chromosome, a man grows very slowly) was operated in the department of pediatric cardiac surgery at the Heart Institute in early December.

December 18, 2014

Holter device for daily monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias for children has presented a social activist, a human rights activist “Obolon” Sviridenko Anna to the children’s department of the Heart Institute.

December 19, 2014

The celebration in honor of the feast of St. Nicholas was held In the children’s department of the Heart Institute . Children and adults were made a real fairy tale with congratulations and gifts.

December 25, 2014

Heart Institute has carried out a unique operation – the caesarean section to a woman with complex congenital heart disease, who is pregnant with a child with congenital heart disease.

March 18, 2015

In Zhytomyr, people with heart problems, no longer have to travel to big cities for treatment. Professionals conduct research, treatment and surgery in the newly opened regional cardiac center. It is planned that two hundred open-heart operations will be done annually

March 19, 2015

The third scientific conference “Functional diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases” was held on the basis of the Kiev Heart Institute.

March 23, 2015

Award ceremony of soldiers from ATO (Anti-terrorist operation region) who are currently under rehabilitation and treatment in the clinic was held at the Heart Institute. Representatives of the Union Veterans of Angola awarded with diplomas and medals “For defense of their own country” four soldiers.

April 8, 2015

Operations were carried out by CEO of Kiev Heart Institute by Boris Todurov and by doctors of recently opened cardiac surgery center in Regional Hospital.

May 6, 2015

The company “MTS Ukraine” has joined the project “Give a helping hand to children”, the purpose of which was the acquisition of S8-3 transducer for children for the second ultrasound machine

May 15, 2015

Boris Todurov met with the head of Lugansk regional military-civilian administration Gennady Moskal. During the meeting, the country’s leading cardiac surgeon said that the Lugansk and Donetsk regions are in a very difficult situation, because they were left to fend for themselves without regional cardiology department.

May 22, 2015

After 3 year long preparation the Heart Institue (Health Ministry of Ukraine) is to recieve an international healthcare accreditation by QHA Trent (UK), which evens the ukrainian hospital to the top healthcare providers around the world.
“QHA-Trent is delighted that Kiev Heart Institute has achieved Associate Accreditation.

June 06, 2015

Warrior Sergei Leshchenko was wounded during the fighting in the east of Ukraine in the lungs, and fragment eventually moved to the heart.

June 11, 2015

The scientific conference: “Actual problems of cardiology and cardiac surgery” was held at the Kiev Heart Institute

June 12, 2015

General Director of the clinic, Professor Boris Todurov had the speech for the students of the National Medical University with a lecture: “Angiographic treatment of cardiovascular diseases” at the Heart Institute

July 16, 2015

Boris Todurov with a team of cardiac surgeons from the Heart Institute has conducted free consultations in Kramatorsk and Artemovsk on the basis of medical institutions in the citys to help with the solution of problems of local patients and IDPs.

July 07, 2015

In the Heart Institute has been operated the baby, whose father, having 6 children, volunteered in the area of ATO in the hope that will earn money for the heart operation for his two-year son Kolya, who has congenital heart disease. Son – healthy, and his father, who was tortured in captivity, still is fighting for his life.

August 11, 2015

At the 20th week of pregnancy, the woman had an acute myocardial infarction. She has been operated at the Heart Institute – coronary artery stenting.
August 11, 2015 at 37 weeks of pregnancy were successfully carried out pre-planned deliveries on the basis of our Institute.

September, 4, 2015

At the Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine a discussion platform “Laboratory of ideas” took place. The representatives of the Finnish government and activists of international peacekeeping organizations, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, kindly participated. The meeting brought together leading Ukrainian antiterrorist campaign volunteer doctors and medical students.

Septembr 9, 2015

In the facilities of Volyn Regional Hospital a scientific-practical conference “Pulmonary embolism” was held for cardiologists, rheumatologists, anesthesiologists and surgeons of the region. General Director of SI “The Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” Borys Todurov and leading specialists of the regional clinical hospital participated in the event.

September 18, 2015

Specialists of the State Institution “Heart Institute of Ministry of Health of Ukraine” (cardiologist, cardiac surgeon and specialist in ultrasound diagnostics) provided in Ternopil city municipal hospital №2 consultative examinations for more than 50 patients.

September 24, 2015

The social program – “Stop the Infarction”, which is run by the Heart Institute and municipal authorities, provides for free stenting for Kiev residents with myocardial infarction. This was stated by the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko during visiting Heart Institute.

October 16, 2015

Specialists provided consultations for cardiac patients (both adults and children). There were 2 specialist teams: one examined children at the Ternopil municipal pediatric hospital polyclinic, the other – at the cardiology department of the Municipal hospital № 2.

October 22-23, 2015

In Kiev, at Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, under the patronage of the Ministry of Health, the Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons of Ukraine, University Hospital of Geneva (Switzerland) an international scientific and practical conference “Reconstructive heart surgery” took place.

October 29-30, 2015

On the initiative of “Office of Regional Development” and the experts of the Kiev Heart Institute was held two-day on-site reception of patients with acquired heart diseases and ischemic heart disease.

December 3, 2015,
a Research and practical conference with international participants „Cardiomyopathies and Heart Failure” took place in the Heart Institute. The Associate Professor of Cardiac surgery from Mount Sinai Hospital (New-York, USA) Allan Stewart presented his lecture “Surgical treatment of aortic dissection – current tendencies and perspectives”.
The main purpose of the Professor’s visit was to do, first time in Ukraine, unique surgical procedures to treat the ascending aorta aneurism in two Ukrainian patients.

December 3, 2015

First time in Ukraine on December 3rd, 2015, with the participation of Allan Stewart, the leading cardiac surgeon of Mount Sinai Hospital (New-York, USA), two unique surgical procedures for have been performed to cure two Ukrainian patients with ascending aorta aneurisms.

December 16, 2015

General Director of SI Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine Boris Todurov visited Sumy town. The main topic was an introduction of a medical program «Stop infarction». This is a social program, which provides free stenting of heart arteries for the Sumy region residents, who suffer acute myocardial infarction.

December 23, 2015

New Year is a most welcome holiday for all children, as the greatest wishes have to become true this special day. A charity found «The heart in hand», which is founded by the Heart Institute employees with a mission is to help children with congenital heart disease from poor families, together with «Blagodom» company took with pleasure a charity initiative of organizing a New Year celebration for little patients of the pediatric department.

January, 25, 2016

Aan International symposium «Actual issues of pediatric cardiac surgery» was held in the State Institution “Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”. Prof.Kalangos, the Chairman of the Department of Cardio-Vascular Surgery at University Hospital of Geneva and Prof. A. Petropoulos, chief pediatric cardiologist at the Merkezi clinic (Baku) participated in the Symposium.

February, 10-11, 2016

Four students from the Warsaw medical university had onsite training at Kiev Heart Institute.
The guests from Poland got the possibility to visit procedures of coronary artery bypass, mitral and aortic valves plasty, pulmonary artery thrombectomy, familiarized with the special aspects of anesthesia and intensive care for cardiac surgical patients, visited the MRI department.
The students got bright impressions and practical knowledge, they expressed many thanks for friendly reception in the Institute and in Ukraine in general

February 22, 2016

It was the first arterial switch operation for great vessels transposition in Moldova. We thank our Moldovan colleagues for their trust to Heart Institute doctors.

February 23, 2016

Students of the Medical University and all the interested, the auditory was full, with many guests coming from another cities.

March 17th, 2016

The IVth Scientific and practical conference “Functional diagnostics of cardiovascular disease” was held by National medical academy for postgraduate education in name of P.L. Shupyk and Heart Institute by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

March, 25, 2016
On March, 21-25, 2016 under the Ukrainian project “UMSA Internship” (traineeship, organized by the Ukrainian medical students association) the best medical students and interns from Kiev, Vinnitsa and Odessa were the first who had training at Heart Institute.

May 13th, 2016

Heart Institute, together with Kalangos Fund, made joint effort in field of humanitarian cardiac surgery. They built up a at the Heart Institute specialized humanitarian center in order to provide here, in Ukraine, specialized cardiac surgical care to children from developing countries. Kalangos Fund will provide full financial support, and Heart Institute with its staff and infrastructure ensure all the necessary medical service. It is scheduled to treat 8 to 12 cardiac surgical patients monthly.

June, 2d 2016

More than 120 cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, doctors of functional diagnostics attended scientific and practical conference – “Actual problems of cardiology and cardiac surgery,” which was held by the “Heart Institute” of Ministry of health of Ukraine and the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education on the 2d of June.
The purpose of this traditional event was to summarize the main results of researches conducted by the Institute and acting on its base the academic chairs during the academic year.

June 21st, 2016

On the 21st of June conference on “Early diagnosis of renal toxicity” was held at the Heart Institute.
For the first time in Ukraine new methods for early diagnosis of renal disease on the basis of the Heart Institute were presented. This will allow for control of the state of the kidneys for successful heart surgery and subsequent rehabilitation.

6 июля 2016 Киевское общество офтальмологов, Институт сердца МЗ Украины, Национальный медицинский университет имени Богомольца и Национальная медицинская академия последипломного образования им. П.Л. Шупика провели совместное заседание на тему «Гипертоническая болезнь – взгляд кардиолога и офтальмолога», в которой приняли участие более 150 врачей различных специальностей.

July 12, 2016
Heart transplantation is the “gold standard” in the treatment of end-stage heart failure. But because of the currently existing legal obstacles for heart transplantation in Ukraine, the only solution for patients is surgical “bridge” to transplant – a surgery of implantation of artificial heart.

In coordination with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine according to the order of NMAPE No. 1649 from 05.04.2016 the department of heart surgery, endovascular and extracorporeal technologies has been created as a part of the surgical faculty.

July, 21, 2016
Three pediatric patients with congenital heart defect got innovative Nit – Occlud ASD-R system implanted, first time in Ukraine – in Kiev Heart Institute.

August 18th, 2016

The press-conference as to Ukrainian reality of human organ and tissues transplantation and the draft low about transplantation based on “presumption of consent” concept took place at Kiev Heart Institute.

September 13, 2016

In the auditorium of the Heart Institute under the leadership of vice-rector for scientific and pedagogical work of the NMAPE named after P.L. Shupyk professor O.K. Tolstanov and dean of the surgical faculty associate professor V.I. Shuba with the participation of head of the staff department D.D. Briginets a team presentation of the new department of cardiac surgery, endovascular and extracorporeal techniques of NMAPE, head of the department corresponding member of NAMS of Ukraine Professor Boris Todurov and all the academic staff of the department to the managers and staff of the Heart Institute was held.

October 2, 2016. Commemorating the World Heart Day the Charity Running Race (the general sponsor of the race -TM “Pananginum”) under the auspices of the Athletics Federation of Kiev was organized by the “First Ukrainian school of natural run», the main purpose of the event was to help Ludmila Filyarenko, which urgently needs a heart transplant.

October 6, 2016 at the Heart Institute of MOH of Ukraine the conference “Venous thromboembolism: new approaches to diagnosis and treatment” was held, in which the staff and students of the departments of cardiac surgery, endovascular and extracorporeal technologies and functional diagnostics actively participated

October 16th, 2016,

The mechanical heart implantation was successfully performed to save the life of Lyudmyla Filarenko. The woman has a 9 years old son. Her diagnosis – dilated cardiomyopathy – left her no chance to live. The operation of mechani

October 17th, 2016

The operation was performed on October 16th, 2016, by the Heart Institute team under the leadership of the Institute’s General Director, cardiac surgeon Boris Todurov, together with German colleagues – Prof. Christof Schmid, Head of Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Dr. Ersel Simon, a cardiologist from Berlin Heart clinic, Küther Steffen, a bioengineer from Berlin Heart

November, 18, 2016

The purpose of the forum was to familiarize cardiologists, doctors of functional diagnostics, cardiac surgeons with modern methods of diagnostics and interventional treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The conference was attended by more than 200 practitioners from several regions of Ukraine

December, 1st, 2016

The second session was devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. Professor Yuri Ivanov paid attention on the features of diagnostics of congenital heart disease in adults, professor Oleg Zharinov – Indications for myocardial revascularization in patients with heart failure, professor L. Voronkov (Institute of Cardiology Strazhesko of Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.) – The basic provisions of European recommendations for the treatment of heart failure in 2016.
During the seminar a meeting of heads of specialized departments was held.

December, 5th, 2016

Full working week spent in operating rooms together with leading American surgeons Professor Joseph Bavaria, Dr. Benjamin Jackson, Michael Acker, Hristianom Bermudez and others has been an interesting and rewarding experience exploring the high-tech surgical interventions on the heart, great vessels and lungs. The visit can be regarded as construction of the foundation for further cooperation between experts on both sides of the ocean for the benefit of the people.

December 8, 2016

At the Herat Institute CEO of Heart Institute cardiac surgeon Boris Todurov and director of Kaunas University Hospital cardiac surgeon Rimantas Benetis with the team of specialists of Heart Institute conducted a unique operation – 38-year-old patient with a fatal diagnosis “aortic aneurysm” replaced the largest vessel and made the aortic reconstruction of valve.

December 16, 2016

In Kiev, at the Heart Institute a workshop with the participation of Poland’s leading heart surgeon Roman Pshibylskiy was held.
The master class was held in the framework of cooperation between the Silesian Center for Heart Disease and the Heart Institute.

A team of doctors led by Director of the Heart Institute Borys Todurov carried out a volunteer trip to the Donbass (Marinka, Krasnogorovka), during which civilians and military men were examined.

February 24, 2017
Director of the Heart Institute Borys Todurov recently returned from Kherson, where he has held a series of meetings with the leaders and medical workers of the region.
Within the framework of the trip, the patients of the region with congenital and acquired heart diseases were examined by specialists from the Heart Institute – cardiologists, cardiac surgeons (adults and children) and specialists in ultrasound diagnostics.

April, 21, 2017

The best 45 medical students and interns (the best three students/interns from each university) from different regions of Ukraine underwent a week internship at the Heart Institute. The test system was developed by the specialists of the Heart Institute

April, 24, 2017

During the internship it was possible to take a part in the medical process, as well as assisting during the surgical interventions conducted by the chief of the clinic – prof. Benetis. During the surgeries the professor shared some surgical techniques including the author’s one. In addition, it was possible to take a part in super complicated interventions in the ascending aorta and reconstructive interventions on the mitral valve.

April, 27,2017
The subjects of the plenary session included consideration of aspects of the diagnosis of aortic heart diseases and the use of modern cardiac surgical techniques, such as Ozaki’s operation, decalcification and transcatheter implantation of the aortic valve.

Guest Scientific and Practical Conference in Irpen
June 13, 2017

The Irpen Central City Hospital in the Kiev region hosted the guest scientific and practical conference “Actual Issues of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery” co-organized by the Heart Institute and the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (NMAPE) named after P. Shupik (Department of Cardiac Surgery, X-ray Endovascular and Extracorporeal Technologies, Functional Diagnostics).

June 19, 2017
The team of doctors (adult and children’s teams) together with the personell of the Department of Cardiosurgery, X-ray Endovascular and Extracorporeal Technologies of the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (NMAPE) named after P. Shupik led by director of the Heart Institute Borys Todurov made a trip to the city of Mariupol in the Donbass during which cardiological and cardiosurgical profile patients were examined and the lectures for the doctors were conducted.

May 25, 2017, a unique operation was carried out jointly by specialists from the Heart Institute headed by Professor Borys Todurov and specialists of the Shalimov Institute headed by Professor Ivan Todurov. The patient, who simultaneously had two extremely severe pathologies, critical aortic valve stenosis and gastric adenocarcinoma, was denied surgery at all treatment sites,…

A big team of specialists from the Heart Institute worked in Rivne.
In a single day 130 patients were consulted, 88 of them were children. In addition, 27 patients were identified to have need of surgery in the near future, 66 patient need the dynamic monitoring of the state of the heart.

September 17, 2017

The helicopter of the State Emergency Service with the patient on board has landed on the roof of the Heart Institute for the first time in 10 years.

October 19, 2017

“Charity Fund of Ruslan Golub” on the basis of the Tetiev regional Hospital conducted a charity event “From Heart to Heart” with participation of specialists from the Heart Institute: cardiac surgeon, head of the department of congenital heart diseases Irina Aksenova and cardiologist, ultrasound specialist, head of the children’s polyclinic of the Heart Institute Elena Dudko.

November, 16-17, 2017

The main idea of the conference was to raise awareness of cardiologists, functional diagnostic physicians, cardiac surgeons, doctors of related specialties with regard to modern diagnostic possibilities and interventional treatment for cardiac arrhythmias. More than 250 practitioners from the majority of regions of Ukraine registered for participation in the 2-day conference.

November 23-24, 2017

Leading cardiac surgeons from the USA, Germany, Lithuania, Great Britain, Belarus, Poland, Romania, Greece, Georgia, Moldova took part in the event.
The Congress was not just a cycle of reports of outstanding cardiac surgeons – it was a meeting of like-minded people, masters of their cause; a gathering of a united world team who are most anxious to save human lives.

December 1, 2017
More than 120 doctors-cardiologists, therapists, cardiac surgeons, resuscitators, anesthesiologists, and functional diagnostic doctors from different regions of Ukraine took part in the seminar. The annual seminar always draws so much attention of practical doctors, given the rapid evolution of approaches to diagnosis and treatment of acute coronary syndromes.

December 19, 2017
All are looking forward to the New Year holidays, children in particular. These fabulous events begin with St. Nicholas Day. At home, the kids are waiting for a sweet present under the pillow, warm Mom’s embraces, and fairy tales.

March 15-16, 2018

The purpose of the conference was to familiarize practitioners with modern capabilities of functional diagnostic methods, discuss the state of preparation of methodological and regulatory documents. The conference was attended by 238 doctors from all over Ukraine, including the main specialists in functional diagnostics of the regions of Ukraine.

March 17, 2018

The Heart Institute hosted the First All-Ukrainian Conference – “Innovative surgery”, dedicated to the latest methods of treatment in surgery, which are successfully used in Ukraine.
About 500 participants worked in an atmosphere of intense, interesting and exciting communication with successful surgeons of our country.

March, 29, 2018

The patient, 75 years old, had a complex combined lesion of the aortic valve (a combined aortic defect with a predominance of  stenosis), a marked loss of ascending aortic calcinosis and a number of concomitant diseases, which combined risk the traditional operation to be extremely high. Endovascular implantation of the aortic valve was the only opportunity to save his life.

April 15, 2018

30 best students of senior courses and interns from 15 medical universities of Ukraine were trained at the Heart Institute. This is a joint project of the Heart Institute with UAMED (NGO “Ukrainian Association of Specialists in the Development of Medical Education”), which is held for the third year in a row. Participants of internships took part in operations and got experience of practical work in different departments of the clinic.

April 20, 2018

A boy from the Rivne region was born on 27th week of pregnancy with a weight of 870 g with two heart defects – coarctation of the aorta, hypoplasia of the aortic arc and with open Botallo’s duct. During the month, Rivne doctors took care about child and then took him to the Heart Institute. Upon just 2.5 hours after the child’s arrival to the clinic, he was successfully operated by a team of doctors headed by cardiac surgeon Vasyl Karpenko and anesthetist Iryna Galamay.

May 17, 2018
The law on transplantation of organs will allow for saving many lives.
Boris Todurov believes that the law on transplantation needs to be promoted.

June 1, 2018
About 100 cardiologists, therapists, cardiac surgeons, resuscitators, anesthesiologists, and functional diagnostics physicians took part in the conference. The traditional main goal of the forum is to acquaint doctors of different specialties with the latest achievements in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology.

June 2, 2018

The main purpose of the workshop was to train physicians on the practical application of the latest American and European approved guidelines for echocardiographic visualization of the heart.

June 18-19, 2018
Igor Mokryk, Head of the Department of Surgical Methods for the Treatment of Acquired Heart Diseases, the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, shared the experience of the Institute’s specialists in Ozaki Procedure.

June 21-23, 2018,
The Congress has shown that the international interest in the experience of Ukrainian surgeons in Ozaki procedure is growing steadily.
Igor Mokryk, Head of the Department of Surgical Methods for the Treatment of Acquired Heart Diseases, the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, made a presentation on the results of the surgeries at the Heart Institute.

June 27, 2018
At the conference hall of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, a meeting of doctors and patients with the famous Indian transplant doctor Dr. Komarakshi Balakishnan was held. He is one of the top ten best transplanters in the world.

July 5, 2018
At the age of 16 the patient was diagnosed with an infective endocarditis of the aortic valve and in 1989 she was successfully operated by Professor A. Rudenko. At that time a ball prosthesis of the aortic valve was implanted, which successfully worked for 29 years.

July 6, 2018,
Two unique people with transplanted hearts – Ukrainian Eduard Sokolov and Frenchman Paul Baudry – met at the Heart Institute of the Heart. Edward’s heart was transplanted by Borys Todurov exactly 15 years ago – in July 2003. Paul received a new heart in 2009 at the Hopital de la Pitié clinic thanks to Dr. Aubert.

July, 8, 2018
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.

July 13, 2018
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.

July, 26, 2018
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.

August 13, 2018

Little Oleksiy, brought by Ambulance car to Kyiv from Kherson, became the second operated child with such a diagnosis. The baby is one of the twins. Together with his brother Andrew he was born on the 32d week of pregnancy. His little brother was born healthy, but Oleksiy immediately needed intensive care

August 16, 2008

We express our highest appreciation to the servicemen of the military unit No. 3018, who showed their desire to help the patients of the Heart Institute. We are sincerely grateful to those who share their blood for the salvation of human lives.

August 23, 2018
Cardiac surgeon Igor Mokrik says, ‘…The fact that Masha returns to Palestine after a successful Fontan procedure in Ukraine is a success of the joint efforts of not one dozen specialists from Donetsk, Palestine, and Kiev. On their behalf, I wish Masha and her family peace and all the best.’

August 29, 2018
About 100 patients were examined, including 52 children with heart pathology, and extensive counseling on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases was provided. There were many children who were registered in the Sumy City Children’s Hospital, as well orphans living in the Children’s Home, and residents of the region.

September 5, 2018

We express our sincere gratitude to the blood donors from the police regiment “Peacemaker” of the Kyiv region.
You came to our clinic with an open heart, a desire to help other people, to give the particle of youself for the sake of life.

On September 6-7, 2018,
The International Conference 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. Organizers of the conference attracted speakers from Ukraine, the USA, Italy, and Belarus and prepared a rich program for participants.

September 13, 2018
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. A presentation of Borys Todurov’s monograph “Pulmonary Thromboembolism: Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment” was held within the framework of the conference.

25 Sep 2018
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.

28 September 2018
“Thanks to the efforts of a team of researchers from the Heart Institute, we conducted the world’s first implantation of the Visone system we have developed and we intend to further demonstrate the benefits of asymptomatic  diaphragm stimulation (ADS) in patients with heart failure and lowered ejection fraction,” President and Chief Executive Officer of VisCardia Inc. Peter Bauer underlined in a report on the XIX national Congress of cardiologists of Ukraine, held in Kyiv on September 26-28.

On October 2, 2018, the Kharkov citizen Eduard Sokolov, who has lived with a transplanted heart for 15 years, celebrated an important anniversary of the transplant operation at the Heart Institute, Kyiv.

On October 4, 2018, within the framework of the 27th International Medical Exhibition “PUBLIC HEALTH 2018”, the Conference “New Technologies in Cardiac Surgery” organized by the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine was held in Kyiv.

5 October 2018
Employees of the Department for the Protection of the Economy in the Kyiv Oblast of the Department of National Defense of Ukraine’s National Defense Police donated their blood for small patients of the Children’s Department of the Heart Institute.

On October 11, 2018, the Ambassador of the State of Kuwait, His Excellency Dr. Rashid Al-Advani, and the Director of the Heart Institute, Professor Borys Todurov solemnly signed a donation of medical equipment agreement from the State of Kuwait to the Heart Institute, specifically to the Children’s Intensive Care Unit.

On October 12, 2018, at the Kiev Heart Institute, a third time in Ukraine, a patient with a diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy was implanted with a mechanical heart developed by the German company Berlin Heart.

On October 16, 2018, in the Rivne Regional Children’s Hospital, a team of specialists from the Heart Institute, Kyiv led by cardiac surgeon Vasyl Karpenko conducted a surgery on a heart of a premature baby weighing less than 1 kg.

On October 20, 2018, one of the largest medical events of the year – the Medical Motivational Meeting – took place at the Heart Institute.

On November 15-16, 2018, the jubilee X scientific-practical conference “Arrythmology Days in Kyiv” was held at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, which became a real holiday for cardiologists and doctors of related specialties, which are engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias of the heart.

21-11-2018
On November 21, 2018, another procedure of the implantation of the mechanical heart took place at the Heart Institute. The implantation was carried out by a team of specialists under the lead of the Director of the Institute, Professor Borys Todurov. This is the fourth implantation of mechanical heart in Ukraine and the second one this year.

On November 30, 2018, the scientific and practical seminar “Myocardial infarction and heart failure. News of Cardiology in 2018 ” was held at the Heart Institute with the active participation of departments of functional diagnostics, cardiosurgery, X-ray and intravascular and extracorporeal technologies of  the Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education ((NMAPE) and with the assistance of the departments of public health of the Kyiv City State Administration and Kyiv Regional State Administration.

On December 12, 2018, at the Heart Institute, a press conference of the Institute’s specialists took place involving two patients with mechanical hearts implanted by the Institute’s team lead by the Director of the Institute, Professor Borys Todurov.

On December 18, 2018, a significant event in the history of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine took place – 22 research fellows of the Institute elected the General Director of the clinic. Among the four candidates, the voters unanimously voted for the founder of the Institute – Professor Borys Todurov.

January 24, 2018 – nine days ago the patient with severe total viral-bacterial pneumonia with very low saturation was brought from Kropyvnytskyi (about 300 km from Kiev) to the Heart Institute. Due to the disease, the lungs of the patient, in fact, did not function and her life was threatened. The transportation was carried out with the support of artificial ventilation of the lungs (AVL) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which was an unprecedented event in the history of Ukrainian medicine.

On February 1, 2019, a masterclass of an international level under the leadership of Professor Kalangos (Greece) took place in the walls of the Heart Institute, Kiev.

On February 20, 2019, for the first time in Ukraine, at the Heart Institute, Kiev the endovascular implantation of the world’s smallest pacemaker, Medtronic Micra was conducted.

21-02-2019
Since the beginning of 2019, more than 300 surgeries have been performed on the basis of the Departments of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy and the Department of Cardiosurgery, X-ray Endovascular and Extracorporeal Technologies of the National Academy of Postgraduate Education (NMAPE) named after P. Shupyk of the Heart Institute. Among them, there are a large number of unique procedures with high surgical and anaesthetic risk.

On March 14, 2019, the National Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education named after P. Shupik (NMAPE) and the Heart Institute held the 7th Register Scientific and Practical Conference “Functional Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases” devoted to the 40th anniversary of the Department of Functional Diagnostics. The main purpose of the conference was to familiarize practitioners with modern possibilities of methods of functional diagnostics, discuss the state of preparation of methodological and normative documents.

On March 14-15, 2019, cardiac Surgeons of the Heart Institute Nazar Ozeriansky, Vadim Sakalov, Cardiologist Sergey Demidyuk, and Ultrasonography specialist Dmytro Garbuz worked at the Nova Kakhovka City Polyclinic and examined 81 patients, including 16 children.

On March 20, 2019, at the Heart Institute, “Heart on a Palm” Charitable Foundation solemnly transferred medical equipment worth over 2 million UAH to the Heart Institute’s Departments, due to the support of a benefactor with great heart from Mariupol, businessman Mykola Budyka, who funded the purchase of equipment.

On March 25-26, 2019, a team of specialists from the Heart Institute lead by Professor Borys Todurov visited Mykolaiv and Kherson. 113 adult patients and 84 children were examined, two complex cardiac surgeries were performed.

On April 17, 2019, a team of specialists of the Heart Institute, led by Professor Boris Todurov, visited Sumy. The specialists of the Institute took part in the scientific-practical workshop in the Medical Institute of the Sumy State University with reports. During the visit, 60 adult patients and 17 children were examined. Professor Borys Todurov had a meeting with representatives of local authorities as well.

On April 18, 2019, the 5th Annual Registered Scientific and Practical Conference “Actual Problems of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery” was held at the Heart Institute with the active participation of the departments of cardiosurgery, X-ray endovascular and extracorporeal technologies and functional diagnostics of the Shupik National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (NMAPE).

On April 22 – April 24, 2019 a unique multidisciplinary master-class on the diagnosis and modern treatment of heart failure for seven young cardiologists from Kyiv was held. The initiators of the unique educational project were the employees of the Heart Institute and located on its clinical base departments of the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P. Shupyk.

On June 1, 2019, the Ukrainian-French Scientific and Practical Workshop on Doppler-Echocardiographic Diagnostics “The Generalized Systemic Echo-Tomography of the Heart. Identification of the main anatomical structures” was held at the Heart Institute.

On May 31 – June 1, 2019, a team of the Heart Institute’s doctors took part in the 6th Krakow Workshop on Congenital Heart Defects.

On June 7, 2019, a team of doctors from the Heart Institute (Olena Dudko, Tetyana Bilyk, Volodymyr Vashkeba, Andriy Markovets) conducted an examination of patients at the Kolomyia City Center for Primary Health Care.

June 7-9, 2019, the Baku Heart Days International Congress, organized by the Azerbaijan Society for Cardiovascular Surgery took place on in the capital of Azerbaijan. Professor Borys Todurov presented scientific achievements of the Heart Institute, Kyiv, in his report “Aortic Valve Neocuspidization: short- and mid-term results of Single Center experience”.

On June 14, 2019, at the Heart Institute, at the Blood Transfusion Department (headed by Victoria Gorobets) was solemnly celebrated the World Donor Day.

20-06-2019
5 – 20 June 2019, courses on “Treatment of patients before and after cardiac surgery” were conducted on the basis of the Kozyatyn Central District Hospital, with the participation of specialists from the Heart Institute as teachers.

On July 3, 2019, a team of experts from the Heart Institute visited the Sumy Regional Cardiology Center, where a consultative reception of patients with heart pathology was conducted. The specialists of the Institute also held a master class for local interns.

July 15, 2019
Cardiovascular surgeon Andriy Khokhlov (the Heart Institute) received an international certificate of authorization for independent interventions in inoperable or operable patients with an extremely high risk of aortic stenosis.

July 25, 2019, the world’s smallest pacemaker Micra Medtronic was implanted at the Heart Institute of Heart of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to the patients from Kyiv (67 years old) and Sumy (56 years old) diagnosed with a permanent form of atrial fibrillation, a bradysystolic variant.

20-08-2019
On August 15, 2019, two patients met at the Heart Institute during a routine examination, to both of them, Professor Borys Todurov implanted mechanical hearts in the fall of 2018 – 47-year-old Vasyl Pavlyuk from Ternopil region and 42-year-old Denis Volkov from Odesa.

On September 6-8, 2019, the 29th Annual Congress of the World Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons was held in the capital of Bulgaria Sofia. Doctors of the Heart Institute made two presentations at the Congress.

13-09-2019
Adult’s and children’s teams of specialists of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine visited Rivne (“Rivne Regional Clinical Medical-Diagnostic Center named after V. Polischuk”). In one day 124 patients, 47 adults and 77 children, were examined and consulted.

14-09-2019
The first Clinics Hub’s Center in Ukraine providing primary care to veterans and their families was opened in Borodyanka, Kyiv Region. The Heart Institute became the first partner of the Center. Director of the Heart Institute,

On September 23, 2019, at the Mariupol State University, a scientific and practical conference “Modern methods of treatment of cardiovascular diseases” was held.

September 27, 2019,
Igor Mokryk – cardiac surgeon, Head of the Department of acquired heart defects of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine – had an interesting conversation with students of 3-4 grades of school № 333 in Kyiv at a vocational orientation lesson.

On September 28, 2019, a momentous event for everyone who has relation to transplantology took place in Ukraine – a group of about thirty Ukrainians with transplanted organs conquered the highest peak of Ukraine – Gorverla. Specialists of the Heart Institute participated in this action.

October 1-3, 2019, the First International Symposium on Thrombosis and Hemostasis was held in Odesa. Lectures, workshops, discussions, live discussions, debates and much more brought together the event organizers, speakers, and other participants at the educational venue. Doctors of the Heart Institute also attended this remarkable event.

On October 22, 2019, at the Heart Institute, for the first time in Ukraine, a mechanical heart of the new generation was implanted – Medtronic Heart Ware 2 which is one of the most widely used Left Ventricular Assistance Devices (LVAD) in the world.

The 3rd International Conference “Reconstructive Heart Surgery”, co-sponsored by the Heart Institute, was held with great success at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kyiv on October 24-25, 2019.

A significant event for cardiologists, arrhythmologists, cardiac surgeons, specialists in related specialties was the XI scientific-practical conference with international participation “Arrhythmology Days in Kiev”, which took place on November 21-22, 2019 at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

26 November 2019, at the Heart Institute a team of specialists led by the Director of the Institute Professor Borys Todurov implanted a mini-mechanical heart to a 22-year-old patient from Mykolayiv with a diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy. The operation was successful.

November 28, 2019, at the Heart Institute, a Scientific and practical conference with international participation “The role of laboratory research in modern cardiac surgery and cardiology” was held.

December 6, 2019, a visiting team of specialists of the Heart Institute worked at the Rivne V. Polishchuk Regional Clinical Medical Diagnostic Center.

On December 17, 2019, specialists of the Heart Institute took part in the scientific and practical conference at the Medical Institute of Sumy State University. After the conference, doctors of the Heart Institute held a consultative reception of patients and conducted a master-class on the diagnosis of congenital and acquired heart defects.

On December 24, 2019, at the Kovel Territorial Medical Association’s hospital, a team of specialists of the Heart Institute, led by the director of the Institute, Professor Boris Todurov, successfully completed a heart transplant to a recipient with severe dilated cardiomyopathy.

28-01-2020
Updated in a literal and figurative sense, 56-year-old Vasily Migovka, who received a new heart on December 24, 2019, being happy, full of energy, new dreams and desires returns home to his large family.

January 31 – February 1, 2020, the First School of Hemostasis was held at the Heart Institute, thanks to the cooperation of the Heart Institute, the Odessa National Medical University, the Odessa Scientific and Practical Society of Hemostasiologist, Anesthesiologists, and Reanimatologists as well as Medvoice Medical Science and Education Platform.

04-02-2020
Prof. Borys Todurov: “Impossible becomes possible! Another heart transplantation has been conducted in Kovel. Excellent work of a large team of specialists it was. A unique regional hospital shows an example throughout Ukraine.”

On February 13, 2020, at the Heart Institute, a 31-year-old woman with a heart defect – mitral valve stenosis – gave birth to a healthy baby girl with a caesarean section led by a gynecologists’ team led by Prof. V. Kaminsky together with the doctors of the Heart Institute headed by Prof. Borys Todurov.

14-02-2020
On the eve of Valentine’s Day, Director of the Heart Institute, Professor Borys Todurov took part in the presentation of the book “Instruction for a Secondary heart” by Tamsyn Murray (Artbooks publishing house) at the Novopechersk School of Kyiv for students of 9-11 grades.

On February 29, 2020, the doctors of the Heart Institute held a reception of patients in the town of Rodynske. About 50 patients were examined on the basis of the “Rodynske City Hospital”.

03-03-2020
In the past, he was an ambulance driver. He survived two heart attacks, his heart was critically affected, only a transplant could save…

19-03-2020
March 19, 2020, Director of the Heart Institute, Professor Borys Todurov: “The Heart Institute temporarily suspends planned operations, only emergency patients with a diagnosis are hospitalized: acute ischemia – acute coronary syndrome (myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary arrhythmia, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary embolism). If necessary, the Heart Institute will be able to hospitalize difficult patients who will need artificial lung ventilation and ECMO.

10-04-2020
The planned implantation of a mechanical heart was actually postponed due to the inability to come for foreign specialists. Time is running out, the quarantine is extended, but Yevgen’s heart cannot wait …

On April 24, 2020, as part of the remote cycle of Advanced Training Courses “Outpatient ECG Monitoring”, an interdepartmental webinar organized by the Department of Functional Diagnostics in conjunction with the profile department of Lviv National Medical University named after Danylo Halytsky was held.

On April 28, 2020, the webinar of Prof. Oleg Zharinov, head of the Department of Functional Diagnostics of the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P. Shupyk (NMAPE), arrhythmologist of the Heart Institute, “The place of warfarin in the treatment of atrial fibrillation from the standpoint of modern recommendations” was held.

On May 14, 2020, the aortic arthroplasty of a giant aneurysm of the thoracic aorta was performed by the head of the Department of Angiography and Endovascular Surgery Andriy Khokhlov with a team of doctors – Oleg Zelenchuk, Maria Slyubyk, Kostyantyn Boiko. The patient feels well after the surgery.

16-05-2020
It is not the first time that doctors of the Heart Institute together with colleagues from Kovel Regional Hospital save the patient’s heart through joint efforts in Kovel. This time a 16-year-old boy with a rupture of the thoracic aorta is the patient.

July 4, 2020
This is the third transplantation in Ukraine in six months. On July 3, 2020, the transplantation was performed by the team of the Heart Institute, Kyiv, headed by Director of the Institute Prof. Borys Todurov. Many thanks to Lviv colleagues led by Oleg Samchuk (Lviv Clinical Ambulance Hospital

On July 6, 2020, for the first time in Ukraine at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the clinic specialists implanted a balloon-expandable prosthesis of the aortic valve to a patient with severe aortic stenosis. This type of prosthesis has not been available for implantation in Ukraine until now.

July 8, 2020
Congratulations to Director of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Professor, Cardiac Surgeon Borys Todurov on the occasion of the award with the Diploma of the Parliament of Ukraine “For special services to the Ukrainian people”!
Saving one person is happiness, saving tens of thousands of people is our vocation.

July 15, 2020
For the first time, heart transplantation was performed at the Heart Institute. This was the fourth heart transplantation in Ukraine.
The operation was performed by Professor Borys Todurov with a team of doctors from the Heart Institute.

July 30, 2020
A 58-year-old patient with an acute myocardial infarction complicated by rupture of the interventricular septum of the heart was admitted to the Heart Institute, Kyiv.

August 6, 2020
This is the fifth heart transplant in Ukraine in the last 8 months and the second at the Lviv Ambulance Hospital.
The heart was received by a 45-year-old patient from Chernivtsi, whose own heart was so affected by pneumonia with complications (ejection fraction – 11 – critically low) that required immediate transplantation.

13-year-old Diana entered the pediatric department of the Heart Institute with a very rare and life-threatening pathology – a pre-coartic aneurysm of the aortic arch. The pathology was diagnosed by accident during a routine X-ray examination at the place of residence. After further research, the diagnosis was confirmed. The girl was operated on successfully, aneurysm…

August 20, 2020
A two-chamber pacemaker was implanted in a 28-year-old pregnant patient with a diagnosis of transient AV-blockade of the third degree at the Heart Institute

On October 19, 2020, at the Heart Institute, Kyiv, the first stage of the endovascular prosthesis of critical aortic valve stenosis (TAVR) was performed in a 56-year-old patient from Kryvyi Rih who was preparing for a liver transplant because of liver cirrhosis.

October 30, 2020
The purpose of the forum was to acquaint doctors of various specialties with innovations in the field of cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology, methods of functional diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases, introduced into clinical practice during the last year.

November 20, 2020
The purpose of the annual arrhythmology forums is to raise doctors’ awareness of current opportunities for diagnosis and interventional treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.

On November 21, 2020, the sixth heart transplant in Ukraine in 11 months took place in Lviv. The transplant was performed by prof. Borys Todurov with a team of doctors of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine together with Lviv colleagues led by Oleh Samchuk, Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medicine of Lviv.

December 12, 2020
The whole team of the Heart Institute is extremely excited – today another heart transplant took place at the Institute.

December 21, 2020
Recently an operation for the closure of the paravalvular fistula of the mitral valve with apical access was performed by a multidisciplinary team of doctors from the Heart Institute.

December 22, 2020
Six plastic surgeries were performed to correct congenital malformations of the aortic and mitral valves of the heart in children, including two Ozaki surgeries.

December 31, 2020
It was a difficult year, but we survived it with dignity. Hundreds of patients treated with Covid-19, thousands operated this year, we performed 9 out of 10 transplants made in Ukraine, implanted a pacemaker in a pregnant patient, the weight of our youngest patient was 900 g, and the age of our oldest patient was 101 years.

January 11, 2021
With this operation, the specialists of the Heart Institute continue to introduce cosmetic accesses in patients with congenital heart defects. The method has significant advantages: it reduces the risk of complications, shortens the rehabilitation period, and in the long run, the results of the cosmetic intervention are much more effective.

20-01-2021
A 78-year-old patient underwent septal alcohol ablation of an obstructive form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy last year, and after a reduction in the gradient, TAVI procedure was performed in safer conditions (to avoid suicide ventricle syndrome). The patient was discharged home in good condition.

January 26, 2021
The surgery was complicated. The mechanical heart was not sutured to the normal myocardium: the patient had a thinned and not sufficiently dense aneurysm, so first a tricuspid valve plastic surgery and resection of a giant postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm were performed, and then a mechanical heart was sutured to the remains of the aneurysm.

February 10, 2021
We thank everyone involved in the history of Ukrainian transplantology and wish more healthy hearts beat in the chests of Ukrainians this year.

February 12, 2021
In Kherson, doctors of the Heart Institute performed heart surgery on three children: a 2-month-old infant and children aged 13 and 6.

Februrary 18, 2021
Specialists of the Heart Institute – pediatric cardiorheumatologist, ultrasound specialist Tetyana Bilyk and cardiac surgeon Andriy Markovets visited cities of Kolomyia and Kosiv in Ivano-Frankivsk region on February 17 and 18. During the visit, our doctors consulted about 100 adult patients and children.

February 18, 2021
The whole team of the Heart Institute is excited – another heart transplant took place tonight, which was flawlessly performed by the team headed by Gavril Kovtun, Head of the Human Organ and Tissue Transplant Department of the Heart Institute.

February 23, 2021
A year ago, for the first time in 15 long breaks, a heart transplant was performed from a posthumous donor. Vasyl Mihovka, a 56-year-old Ukrainian from Transcarpathia, underwent surgery. It was an important day – a new history of Ukrainian cardiac transplantation began.

February 26, 2021
From February 18 to 25, 2021, a team of doctors from the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine led by Prof. Borys Todurov shared their experience in Uzbekistan at the invitation of colleagues from the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center of Cardiology in Samarkand.
The trip was very intense, rich and bright.

March 1, 2021
Recently, at the Heart Institute, another endovascular prosthesis of the aortic valve of the heart (TAVI) was performed on a 78-year-old patient with critical aortic stenosis.

March 12, 2021
On March 12, 2021, an extremely important and cordial event took place in Lviv – “Gathering of people with transplanted organs.” This event brought together the people who have created a new history of Ukrainian transplantology over the past year. 14 out of 40 patients who got a chance to survive were able to attend the event and tell their stories.

March 15, 2021
The health of all employees of the Heart Institute is important because to better help patients the clinic staff must be healthy.
Today, the first 64 of our employees of the Institute were vaccinated.

March 17, 2021
A 38-year-old man had a heart transplant last night in Zaporizhia. As of to date, the patient was taken by helicopter from Zaporizhia to the Heart Institute to the intensive care unit (headed by Ihor Kuzmych) for nursing. The patient is stable.

March 18, 2021
The conference was extremely rich and productive. Over the past year, significant progress has been made in Ukrainian transplantology and one of the topical issues highlighted by the conference is the creation of a full-fledged, civilized transplant system.

March 19, 2021
The main purpose of this annual conference was to acquaint practitioners with the modern capabilities of methods of functional diagnostics, to discuss the state of preparation of methodological and regulatory documents. More than 2,500 doctors from all regions of Ukraine have pre-registered to participate in the forum

April 7, 2021
3 days after the negative PCR test, the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit with deterioration. Therefore, it was decided to immediately perform transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with implanted valve Evolut R 29.

April 9, 2021
The team of the Children’s Department of the Heart Institute within the framework of the Healthy Ukraine program visited the city of Dnipro and performed two complex operations. The patients were 2 girls aged 1.5 and 1.8 years diagnosed with Tetrad Fallot and atrial and interventricular septal defects.

April 21, 2021
A hybrid surgery was performed at the Heart Institute on a patient with acute thoracic aortic dissection. The peculiarity of this pathology was that in this case the bleeding from a ruptured aorta had evolved.

April 28, 2021
A team of doctors of the Heart Institute implanted an Evolut R valve in an 83-year-old patient with critical aortic stenosis and a gradient on the valve of 120 mm Hg. This is the largest size of prosthesis that currently exists.

May 18, 2021
Sviatoslav Nimchuk from Kyiv who had a heart transplant a little over a year ago visited the Heart Institute for another examination.
Cardiologist of the Organ Transplant Department Anna Melnyk and Head of the Department Gavrylo Kovtun testified that the heart works well while the patient himself talks about his excellent health and quality of life.

23-05-2021
From May 18 to 23, 2021, a team of doctors from the Heart Institute led by Borys Todurov shared their experience in Kyrgyzstan at the invitation of colleagues from the Research Institute of Heart Surgery and Organ Transplantation of the Ministry of Health in Bishkek.

24-05-2021
On the night of May 24, a heart transplant was performed at the Heart Institute. And it’s still a miracle!
A young 29-year-old man from Sumy region suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy and has been observed at the Heart Institute for 3 years.

01-06-2021
As part of the Healthy Ukraine program, doctors from the Heart Institute visited Mariupol. Vasyl Karpenko, the head of the neonatal cardiac surgery department, and Olena Guryna, a cardiologist, examined about 40 children on the basis of the Child and Women’s Health Clinic, many of whom needed surgery.

09-06-2021
Last night, on June 8, 2021, at the Heart Institute another transplant took place for our 60-year-old patient Yuriy Goryachy from the Vinnytsia region, otherwise, his life was in danger. 5 years ago Yuriy suffered a heart attack, stenting, and eventually implantation of a pacemaker.
Our patient received a new heart and a new life.

10-06-2021
On June 10, 2021, a team of doctors from the Heart Institute visited Sumy for a consultative examination and consultations with residents of the city and region. Our doctors examined about 100 patients, both adults and children. The trip was organized with the assistance of the NGO “Oleksandr Yemets Charitable Foundation”.

12-06-2021
Recently, as part of our Healthy Ukraine program, doctors from the Heart Institute – cardiac surgeon Yuriy Kharenko and functional diagnostics specialist Kristina Monastyrskaya – visited the Voznesensk City Center for Primary Health Care. 30 patients, 7 of them came from Mykolayiv, were examined and consulted.

30-06-2021
Recently, at the Heart Institute, another implantation of a Micra miniature pacemaker by Medtronic was performed.
The operation was performed by the Head of the Department of Cardiac Arrhythmias, interventional arrhythmologist Oleksandr Gritsay. He is the only doctor in Ukraine who performs these operations.
A total of 15 such devices have been implanted at the Heart Institute.

01-07-2021
The purpose of the three-hour multidisciplinary webinar was to acquaint physicians of various specialties with changes in approaches to the stratification of the risk of thromboembolic complications and antithrombotic therapy in patients with cardiovascular disease.

05-07-2021
Recently, doctors at the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine saved the life of a little French citizen who was only two days old. The girl had a rare pathology – transposition of the main vessels and a ventricular septal defect (dTMA + VSD).

13-07-2021
Young doctors are our future, and it is necessary to invest in the future, especially knowledge. That is why Prof. Borys Todurov is doing everything possible to share his professional skills with the younger generation of doctors.

20-07-2021
An 81-year-old patient with critical aortic stenosis recently applied to the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. However, an arrhythmia was also detected.

02-08-21
Olga Marintseva, the author of the project, shared her dream with us. She wanted to tell everyone that doctors, medical workers, nurses, orderlies, although hidden by several layers of protection, are also Living People with human emotions, so they pass their work through the heart.

30-08-2021
Recently, specialists from the Cardiac Arrhythmia Department of the Heart Institute headed by cardiovascular surgeon, arrhythmologist Yevhen Zhytynsky, held an arrhythmology master class in Sumy at the invitation of the administration of the regional clinical cardiology dispensary.

01-09-2021
Tonight at the Heart Institute another person got a second chance at life. A heart transplant was performed on a 38-year-old man with a fourth blood type, which is quite rare. The transplant took 2 hours 5 minutes of ischemic time.

03-09-2021
On the night of September 3, 2021, a heart transplant was performed at the Heart Institute. This is the sixth transplant in our clinic and the second in the last three days.

07-09-2021
Aortic valve prosthetics with ministerotomy, when the sternum is partially separated, have long been part of the daily clinical practice of the Institute. Prosthetics of the valve from a minitoracotomy in the second intercostal space – the next step and the skeletal framework of a thorax is not affected at all.

20-09-2021
Recently, doctors at the Heart Institute rescued a little girl, Diana, who was as little as a surgeon’s palm. She was delivered to the Institute weighing only 1,500 grams. Her condition was extremely serious…

21-09-2021
This is a unique operation for our country and an extremely important page in the history of cardiac transplantation. The patient is a 13-year-old boy Maxym from the Volyn region, whose condition was critical. The transplant was successful. The child got a chance for long and happy life.

28-09-2021
Today at 14:00 a donor’s heart started to beat in the chest of 12-year-old Margarita. It was her only chance to live. Weakness is all in the past. Ahead, the girl is facing a long and happy life with a healthy heart.

01-10-2021
In practice, the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine sometimes has extremely difficult cases when patients have only one chance at life. And we use all the possibilities of our Institute to save them.

03-10-2021
A 62-year-old man’s life was saved last night thanks to a donor, a 38-year-old woman.

06-10-2021
The purpose of the Conference was to promote the accessibility of transplantation to Ukrainians and to campaign for organ donation in society.

12-10-2021
Kyiv — Ivano-Frankivsk – Lviv. For all – 7 hours on the road for heart collection and less than an hour for surgery. The recipient is a 29-year-old man, his condition after the operation is stable.

15-10-2021
At the Heart Institute, a surgery was performed on the heart of little Maya 6 hours after birth with a diagnosis of critical aortic stenosis. We had known the girl’s mother much earlier, to whom Prof. Borys Todurov implanted an aortic valve prosthesis in 2004.

16-10-2021
The Heart Institute is a scientific institution. It is a pleasure to note the fact that the research work carried out within the walls of the Institute is gaining worldwide recognition and our doctors are invited to speak at the world’s leading scientific forums.

21-10-2021
The fifth heart transplant of this month took place tonight at the Heart Institute. It was difficult because the patient has already undergone more than one heart operation. In 2004, he underwent implantation of an aortic valve prosthesis at the Institute, but 17 years later he needed a transplant. The operation lasted 1.5 hours, everything went well.

12-11-2021
On November 9-12, 2021, specialists from the Heart Institute performed operations at the Research Institute of Heart Surgery and Organ Transplantation in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

15-11-2021
In January 2021, the Institute was visited by a 53-year-old patient for a routine examination after aortic valve grafting in 2002. He complained of shortness of breath during exercise, which has increased over the past 6 months.

19-11-2021
The conference covered the most modern aspects of interventional arrhythmology and medical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. More than 800 doctors of various specialties from all regions of Ukraine registered to participate in the conference.

22-11-2021
Tonight, our doctors performed another heart transplant. Step by step heart transplantation is becoming the norm in Ukraine and we are very proud of it.

23-11-2021
This case was unique because, for the first time in Ukraine, the transplantation of two organs took place simultaneously. Everything went well. The patient is Vsevolod, a 52-year-old resident of Kyiv who has been on hemodialysis for the past 16 years because of kidney failure.

04-12-2021
On the basis of the Rivne Regional Clinical Medical and Diagnostic Center named after V. Polishchuk, our specialists advised residents of the region who suffer from complex diseases of the cardiovascular system.

It was the 25th transplant performed by Prof. Borys Todurov and his team. 15 of them were performed at the Institute, 10 – in other regions of Ukraine.

Under support of the Pakistani Embassy in Ukraine, Director of the Heart Institute Borys Todurov and Head of the Department of Acquired Heart Diseases of the Heart Institute Igor Mokryk visited Pakistan.

14.02.2022
In December the Heart Institute celebrates the 15-year anniversary!
The Heart Institute is more than a hospital. For us and many of our patients, this is a place where they the lives are saved, a place of help and hope for the best

15.02.2022
This is a profession in which there are no random people: one day a young girl comes to the operating room and will never change the daily struggle for the patient’s life to office work.

26.02.2022
Since the beginning of the Russian aggression on February 24, 2022, the Heart Institute continues its work. Our clinic was one of the first to take over the medical front in Ukraine.

27.02.2022
4th day of the war. Currently, there are more than 100 patients and staff families at the Heart Institute. Everyone needs medicine and it is really difficult to deliver it to the Institute at the war times. The Darnytsia plant kindly provided us with humanitarian aid. As we have 10 patients in the intensive care, such care is undoubtedly life-saving. Thank you very much, Darnytsia Plant!

06.03.2022
Help for the Heart Institute the Foundation for the Development of Cardiac Surgery Named after Prof. Zbigniew Religa (Zabrze, Poland).
Medical materials for our patients are highly needed indeed!
Sincere gratitude to our Polish friends!

11.03.2022
These days, the wounded persons were rescued at the Heart Institute: a young woman who received a missile wound – shell fraction stuck near the heart near the ribs, and a 40-year-old man being shot by a 5.45 bullet in the lungs.
They are civilians – a car with people was shot by Russian terrorists in the Irpen region.
Prof. Borys Todurov: “I have been working as a cardiac surgeon for 35 years and I never thought that I would have to remove the remains of bullets and shells from the bodies of peaceful Ukrainian patients who suffered from Russian bombings and shootings…”

19.03.2022
The children from the Sumy Regional Specialized Orphanage were evacuated by 4 ambulances to the Heart Institute. The road was extremely difficult – these are children with multiple disabilities.
Upon arrival, all the children were examined, fed, had their clothes changed, and received all the necessary medical care.

24.03.2022
Today, the Heart Institute has received humanitarian aid from Georgia: medicines, bandages, baby food and clothing, all in large quantities.
We truly thank all the Georgian companies of the Terminal Group and all Omofox employees.

06.04.2022
Today the Heart Institute received two ground stations of the Starlink satellite Internet.
Sincere thanks to the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov.

07.04.2022
Unfortunately, the branch of the Heart Institute in Irpen is currently unable to receive patients due to destruction, abuse, and looting by the Russian invaders – the equipment worth millions of hryvnias and recently purchased for the branch was ruthlessly smashed. The premises are almost destroyed and distorted by traces of these non-humans. All that they could not take with them was shot and destructed.

14.04.2022
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Pope’s personal representative, drove 2,500 km to donate an ambulance to the Heart Institute. As the director of the Heart Institute Prof. Borys Todurov noted, today we symbolically felt the embrace of the Pope and the Vatican. Sincere and huge thanks for the support! We are deeply moved by such attention and care.

14.04.2022
This Thursday before Easter – is remarkable day for us because we received first shipment from our big friend and reliable partner ARLENE CAMPBELL HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION

15.04.2022
More than 60 adult patients with cardiovascular disease were examined and consulted. The team of the Heart Institute also brought from Kyiv much-needed humanitarian aid and consumables which had already been used in the evening same day during two operations on patients with acute heart attacks.

16.04.2022
Consulting and diagnostics were provided to 75 patients, including 10 children. The reception took place on the basis of the Regional Central Multidisciplinary Hospital.

25.04.2022
Recently a visit of specialists of the Heart Institute – cardiac surgeon Maksym Zaretsky and cardiologist, specialist in ultrasound diagnostics Oksana Ostrovska  took place in Tarashcha, Bila Tserkva district of Kyiv region. Consulting and diagnostics were provided to 30 adult patients with cardiovascular disease. The reception took place at the Vashe Zdorovya Medical Center – thanks to local cardiologist Olena Slyusarenko.

29.04.2022
For about a month now, specialists from the Heart Institute Olena Dudko and Natalia Ruban, have been conducting preventive examinations and consultations for children with cardiovascular pathology at the Khmelnytsky Regional Children’s Hospital.
Fleeing from the fighting and shelling, these children’s families moved to the Khmelnytsky region.

06.05.2022
Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our delegation could not be present in London, but on behalf of the ECMO Center of the SI “HI of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” and the PO “Association of Anesthesiologists, Perfusiologists and Intensive Care Physicians” perfusionist Stepan Maruniak told about our experience ECMO in patients with ARDS caused by COVID-19.

10.05.2022
Such a “Heart-team” worked today – Andriy Khokhlov, Maksym Rotar, Konstantin Boyko from the Heart Institute and Oleksandr Rusanov from the Sumy Dispensary took part in the remote consultation. The high-speed internet connection was provided via the Starlink terrestrial satellite station. As a result, a considered decision was made quickly, the patient underwent surgery and feels well.

13.05.2022
Advisory and diagnostic assistance to patients with heart defects and cardiovascular diseases were provided on the basis of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Clinical Cardiology Center, Children’s Regional Hospital and Children’s Polyclinic in Kolomyia. Several patients were selected for cardiac surgery. There were patients who needed a heart transplant.

21.05.2022
Consultation was provided to 157 adult patients with cardiovascular pathology against a background of post-traumatic stress disorder, including patients with exacerbation of chronic coronary heart disease, critical hypertension and severe cardiac arrhythmias.

21.05.2022
On the basis of the Central Polyclinic in Irpin and the Bucha Center of Primary Health Care, consultative and diagnostic care was provided to 100 adult patients and 16 children with heart defects and cardiovascular diseases, several patients were advised for cardiac surgery.

22.05.2022
For the first time in Ukraine, Prof. Borys Todurov and a team of doctors from the Heart Institute performed two heart transplants on patients aged 39 and 67 who had mechanical hearts implanted about two years ago.

28.05.2022
On the first day, the examination took place on the basis of the Shepetivka Multidisciplinary Hospital of Shepetivka Town Council. About 70 patients, 32 of them children, with cardiovascular pathology, including patients with exacerbation of chronic coronary heart disease, hypertension and congenital heart disease, were consulted…

On June 1, 2022, at the Heart Institute, employees of the Antidrug Department of the National Police of Ukraine joined in rescuing Ukrainian soldiers – those who are defending their native Ukraine from Russian aggression.
Sincere thanks and respect to all who joined this cause.

08.06.2022
Specialists of the Heart Institute are actively providing outpatient consultations for patients with cardiovascular diseases and congenital heart defects. The examination took place at the Dmytrivsky Center in Shpytkivska AZPSM, where 48 patients, including 5 children, were consulted.

09.06.2022
An on-site consultation took place in the city of Lubny in the Poltava region.
Doctors of the Heart Institute – cardiac surgeon Yuriy Kharenko and cardiologist, specialist in ultrasound diagnostics Khrystyna Monastyrska, provided advice to 70 specialized patients with coronary heart disease, valvular pathology including postoperative patients.

12.06.2022
This visit took place at the invitation of Georgian colleagues and our good friends at the same time.
It was also an additional opportunity to spread information about the war in Ukraine.
The Georgian colleagues understand us better than anyone.
Many thanks to the doctors and the Georgian people for the support

15.06.2022
We continue to save our patients even in times of war.
A new heart beats in the chest of a 49-year-old man from Mariupol, who had suffered from cardiomyopathy in recent years.

06-15-2022
Today was a significant event – for the first time at the Heart Institute, a family kidney transplant was performed: a mother donated a kidney to her 37-year-old son, who had been on dialysis for a long time. At the moment, both mother and son are feeling well, the kidney is working and the patients are undergoing planned postoperative rehabilitation!

06-16-2022
Thanks to Getinge, the Department of Cardiac Extracorporeal Therapies of the Heart Institute received supplies for artificial circulation during cardiac surgery and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

06-17-2022
Mykolai Medvedev is the first patient in Ukraine to undergo both stages of treatment – 1.5 years ago he had a mechanical heart implanted in the Heart Institute, and three weeks ago a donor heart was transplanted to him.

06-20-2022
The heart was received by the 49-year-old patient from Mykolaiv who moved to Kiev after the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. He had to leave Kyiv for his new heart, because the donor was in Lutsk, and it was not possible to deliver the donor’s heart from there. So, our brigade drove with the patient all night to get to Lutsk as soon as possible.

06-23-2022
Holding the conference was an important step for strengthening the community of specialized departments under the conditions of martial law and continuous professional development of doctors who deal with various aspects of functional diagnostics.

06-24-2022
Over the course of 2 days, highly specialized medical care was provided to patients with cardiovascular diseases and combined pathology. Prof. Borys Todurov gave a lecture on New Aspects in Cardiac Surgery for colleagues.

07-01-2022
Prof. Borys Todurov and the team of the Heart Institute visited three clinics in Kharkiv. Consumables and tools were brought to Kharkiv, and a wounded patient was taken from Kharkiv to Kyiv.
The shelled and bombed Kharkiv continues to live and work in the mode of a military front-line city. Our Kharkiv colleagues continue to save their patients and are not going to leave their city. We express huge respect to Prof. Vera Tseluiko and all the doctors of Kharkiv.

07-09-2022
The Head of the Children’s Polyclinic Department of the Heart Institute, cardiologist, specialist in ultrasound diagnostics, Olena Dudko, visited Kamianets-Podilskyi and conducted a consultative examination of babies and older children

07-13-2022
At the Heart Institute, a kidney was transplanted from a mother to her daughter. As of today, the two of them have already been transferred from the intensive care unit and are in the department in the ward.

07-14-2022
Highly specialized medical care was provided to patients with cardiovascular diseases, patients after heart operations, as well as children aged 1 month to 15 years with congenital heart defects, on the basis of the Bilhorod-Dniester City Multidisciplinary Hospital.

07-14-2022
Prof. Borys Todurov and the team of the Heart Institute visited a military hospital in Dnipro. As part of the visit, Prof. Borys Todurov gave a lecture on thromboembolism to his colleagues.

07-15-2022
Doctors of the Heart Institute provided consultation to 60 specialized patients with coronary heart disease, valvular pathology, as well as postoperative patients. The examination took place on the basis of the Kirovohrad Regional Hospital of the Kirovohrad Regional Council.

07-19-2022
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.

07-26-2022
A 32-year-old patient 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.

07-27-2022
Doctors of the Heart Institute provided consultation to specialized patients with coronary heart disease, valvular pathology, and postoperative patients. The examination took place on the basis of the Zarichne Multidisciplinary Hospital.

07-29-2022
Necessary dressings and consumables, hygiene products, baby food, diapers for small and adult patients, and other necessary things are very relevant because at the Heart Institute they currently treat not only ordinary patients but also rescue military personnel who are brought in with serious injuries directly from the front line.

08-08-2022
Transplantation is life-saving! And saving lives is the mission of doctors all day and night, regardless of weekends. On Saturday, 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.

08-12-2022
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.

08-16-2022
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.

08-18-2022
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 cesarean section, as the child’s life was under a threat.

09-01-2022
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.

09-02-2022
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.

09-08-2022
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.
We are glad to be able to keep the medical front strong.

09-20-2022
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.

10-03-2022
The war started, and Sofia and her mother were forced to leave for Poland and continue treatment there, but they faced many problems and, not receiving any prospects for treatment, returned to Ukraine.

10-10-2022
It is nice to note that for the second year in a row, specialists of the Heart Institute are participating in the Congress not only as delegates but also as speakers.

10-17-2022
The future collaboration will be a powerful step for the development of the field of transplantology, and we are sure that many lives will be saved as a result.
We are very grateful to the Embassy of Ukraine in the USA and personally to Ambassador Oksana Markarova for the assistance during the visit.

10-19-2022
Today, Maksym’s mother, Mrs. Tatyana, told us that the boy has been leading an active and full life of an ordinary teenager for a long time. He even does sports. And he is also thinking about choosing a future profession and does not rule out that he will become…a doctor!

10-26-2022
The forum’s purpose was to acquaint doctors of various specialties with innovations in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology, methods of functional diagnostics and treatment of cardiac diseases introduced into clinical practice during the last year.

10-28-2022
Our reports were on treating combat injuries in the conditions of a cardiosurgical clinic and treating aortic and pulmonary valvular pathology using the neocuspidization method.

11-02-2022
The event initiates a new form of continuous professional development of doctors on the basis of the Heart Institute with the participation of the departments of the P. Shupyk National Institute of Health of Ukraine. Currently, a number of thematic school programs on various aspects of cardiology, functional diagnostics and cardiac surgery are being prepared.

11-04-2022
On November 4, 2022, the 30th-anniversary concert “Heart for Heart” was held in the Polish city of Zabrze, which was organized by the Foundation for the Development of Cardiac Surgery named after Prof. Zbigniew Religa and was held under the honorary patronage of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda. As part of the concert, awards were presented for a special contribution to the development of cardiac surgery.

11-08-2022
Considering the elevated risks of repeated intervention, a choice towards transcatheter “valve in valve” implantation was made. The intervention was performed with 3D echocardiography assistance by transapical approach, 24,5 MyVal (Meril) valve was implanted and the end result was good.

11-11-2022
Despite the continuation of military operations on Ukraine’s territory, the Heart Institute surgeons continue to provide medical care to patients with rhythm disorders according to the highest international standards.

11-12-2022
What was seen was shocking: a destroyed hospital in a destroyed city, dozens of patients needing immediate treatment because they had not received cardiac support for almost a year. We hold the medical front to help those who need our support.

11-18-2022
The conference’s success testifies to the extremely active work and cohesion of arrhythmological centers in Ukraine in the implementation of the latest approaches to the diagnostics and treatment of arrhythmias and heart blocks, the training of specialists in electrophysiology of the heart, continuous professional development of cardiologists and doctors of related specialties.

11-19-22
Turkish cardiac surgery occupies a high position at the world level, and we are proud that the experience of treating pulmonary embolism and neocuspidization of the aortic valve by our cardiac surgeons has attracted the interest of foreign colleagues.

11-23-2022
Today’s rocket attack on Kyiv, November 23, 2022, took several lives of Kyivites and plunged the city into darkness and cold. It was at this moment that 14-year-old David underwent heart surgery. We will hold our medical front until our victory.

11-24-2022
Actual approaches in methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, in accordance with international standards, allow for saving the lives of thousands of Ukrainians.

12-01-2022
This is how well 14-year-old David looks and feels, whom Prof. Borys Todurov operated on for the first time 5 years ago, performing an extremely complex operation on a child’s heart, and now having operated on the boy for the second time. This was the same heart surgery during which, resulting from the Russian shelling, the light in the operating room went out for a while.

12-21-2022
The birthday of the Heart Institute means 15 years of continuous development, new experience, and innovative opportunities for the sake of saving the lives of our citizens!

01-17-2023
Another volunteer trip to the East of Ukraine took place with the NGO “Zolotonosha Coordination Committee for the Support of the Defense of Ukraine”.
We would like to thank Prof. Borys Todurov and colleagues at the Heart Institute, Family Medical Center Olvytsia, and everyone who always helps in the purchase of necessary items and medicines for our Army.

01-23-2023
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.

01-24-2023
60 children with congenital heart defects were examined. Recommendations for further observation and treatment are provided, and some children are referred for surgical correction. Cooperation in transplantation was also discussed.

01-30-2023
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.

02-03-2023
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!

02-05-2023
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.

02-14-2023
Maksym Zaretskyi, arrhythmologist surgeon at the Heart Institute, recently held a master class on the implantation of a three-chamber CRT-P pacemaker for his colleagues on the basis of St. Martin’s Hospital in Mukachevo, Transcarpathian Region. An implantation of a three-chamber cardioverter-defibrillator CRT-D was also performed.

03-13-2023
In Europe, cardiac surgery is rapidly developing towards valve-sparing reconstructive operations. Specialists of the Heart Institute under the leadership of Prof. Borys Todurov have the most experience in valve-sparing operations of the aortic valve. Our colleagues returned home with invaluable experience for saving Ukrainian patients and raising the status of our doctors internationally.

03-15-2023
A team of doctors lead by leading surgeon Mikhailo Zagriichuk, Head of the Kidney Transplantation and Hemodialysis Department at the Heart Institute recently performed an extremely complex high-tech surgical intervention – performed one of the most difficult operations in surgery – pancreaticoduodenal resection (PDR or Whipple’s operation).

03-17-2023
The main goal of the annual conference was to acquaint practicing doctors with the modern possibilities of functional diagnostic methods in cardiology.

03-20-2023
Tonight, Prof. Borys Todurov performed a heart transplant in Zhytomyr. A very young girl with a rare fourth blood type received a new heart. We thank the team of doctors of the Heart Institute and the Zhytomyr Regional Hospital.

03-22-2023
People who suffered the Russian occupation, did not leave their posts and supported the safety of the Nuclear Plant, need special medical support today.

03-25-2023
For the past two weeks, the doctors of the Heart Institute have been training in one of the best clinics of Germany in Hamburg. 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.

03-29-2023
Tonight, a team of doctors from the Heart Institute performed the first heart transplant in the city of Odesa.

03-31-2023
The team of doctors of the Heart Institute – adult and children’s brigades – conducted regular patient consultations on the basis of the University Clinic and the Sumy Regional Clinical Cardiology Dispensary. There was also a meeting between Prof. Borys Todurov and the leadership of the Sumy Regional Council – Regional Council Chairman Viktor Fedorchenko and regional council deputy Vira Lavryk, during which the opening of a branch of the Heart Institute on the basis of a cardiac dispensary was discussed.

04-07-2023
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.

04-21-2023
Team of doctors of the Heart Institute worked at the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant.

04-22-2023
For the first time during the war, we gathered doctors from all over Ukraine and talked about our vocation and responsibility during the war. They shared their experience of rescue and treatment during wartime, discussed the challenges that the morning of February 24, 2022 brought to each of them and, despite everything, they made plans for the Victory and a healthy future.

04-29-2023
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.

05-04-2023
The first classes took place according to the work plan of the thematic improvement seminars. During the working trip, directions of interaction and cooperation with Sumy cardiologists and functional diagnostics doctors were outlined.

05-05-2023
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.

05-08-2023
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.

05-11-2023
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.

05-12-2023
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.

05-13-2023
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.

05-18-2023
The aortic valve replacement was performed to a patient with an advanced aortic heart defect, pronounced aortic stenosis, in Sumy on Vysyvanka Day.

05-21-2023
The Symposium was attended by many leading foreign speakers from Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Austria, Israel, Poland, Italy, and Ukraine. It was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor Anatoly Trishchynsky, an outstanding Ukrainian scientist and anesthesiologist.

05-22-2023
We continue to protect the health of Ukrainian energy workers within the framework of the cooperation program between the Heart Institute and the National Nuclear Energy Company “Energoatom.” Seventy employees of the Khmelnytskyi NPP received consultations and diagnostics.

05-23-2023
Professor Borys Todurov noted the importance of introducing modern educational programs in highly specialized aspects of cardiology, interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery, and related specialties.

06-01-2023
In the first days of June, specialists of the Heart Institute operated on patients in Kherson: two coronary artery bypass grafting operations and three angiographic operations were performed.

06-03-2023
Senior Research Associate, Ph.D., perfusionist of the Heart Institute, Stepan Marunyak, reported on the Heart Institute’s experience in solving complex situations during the application of extracorporeal techniques with an emphasis on the removal of foreign bodies from the heart in combat trauma with the use of a pump oxygenator.

06-05-2023
Our colleagues, Senior Research Associate, Ph.D. Stepan Marunyak, under the guidance of Professor Oleh Loskutov, presented two poster reports on the use of multimodal low-opioid anesthesia in cardiac surgery and changes in the motivation of choosing the profession of anesthesiologist among interns one year before and during the war.

06-06-2023
Removing a tumor of the pancreas together with the spleen laparoscopically “through punctures” was a fantasy until recently. Still, now it is a reality in the Department of Transplantation and Surgery of the Abdominal Cavity at the Heart Institute.

06-07-2023
The scientific program of the seminar included a consistent and comprehensive presentation of aspects of the pathogenesis of dyslipidemias, diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis and its complications in the practice of a cardiologist, functional diagnostics doctor, interventional cardiologist, and cardiac surgeon.

06-08-2023
The International Day of Transplantology was honored with a successful heart transplant to a child at the Heart Institute. The heart was delivered by helicopter from Vinnytsia.

06-10-2023
The implementation of the scientific program was made possible thanks to the efforts of department heads and leading specialists of the Heart Institute, teachers of the Department of Functional Diagnostics of the Shupyk National Institute of Health of Ukraine, who prepared original reports and a program for testing trainees to obtain a certificate of Continuous Professional Development.

06-14-2023
For over a year, 40-year-old Valentyn fought the disease and waited for his new heart; for over a year, his older brother defended the hearts of Ukrainians, our hearts, in the war. He was by his side during the entire operation, and today the brothers are happy together in the transplant department that this battle in their lives has already been won.

06-16-2023
Our patient, 62-year-old Olga, had a right kidney tumor, which was complicated by a tumor thrombus of the inferior vena cava and the right atrium. The woman came to us from Odesa, already in a problematic condition. In her hometown, doctors could no longer help her problem.

06-20-2023
The workshop was registered by the Testing Center at the Ministry of Health of Ukraine as an event for the continuous professional development of doctors. It was held in a hybrid format in the lecture hall of the Department of Functional Diagnostics. About 200 doctors of various specialties have registered for participation.

06-23-2023
We would like to express our gratitude to the employees of the EvoPlay IT company who participated in the corporate donor day. Thank you for finding the opportunity to donate blood in this rather difficult time for the country. That can save about 87 lives.

07-09-2023
Yuliana calls July 8 her second birthday because it was on this day that her transplant took place.

07-10-2023
A 6-year-old girl received a new heart. The operation went smoothly. The girl feels well.
The transplant was performed by a cardiac surgeon, the Director of the Heart Institute, Prof. Borys Todurov, together with the Institute’s team of doctors.

07-13-2023
Solomiyka was born a completely healthy child. Four years ago, due to an ordinary viral disease, she got heart complications and a terrible diagnosis, like a sentence – cardiomyopathy.

07-21-2023
Donetsk region, Pokrovsk – we are with you! This time, the on-site consultation took place in the east of our country. 65 patients, adults and children with heart defects received consultation from a cardiac surgeon.

07-28-2023
Little hearts are in safe hands. The children’s team of the Heart Institute visited the Khmelnytskyi Regional Children’s Hospital, where they examined 37 children with cardiac complaints.
Three children needed surgical correction, so we await them in our clinic.

08-05-2023
The first heart operation in Bancheny (Chernivtsi region) at the St. Luke’s clinic.

08-07-2023
More than 100 children were examined. 19 of them were prescribed operative treatment, 3 children needed urgent hospitalization. Also, in addition to the provided medical care, our doctors gave a lecture and shared their experience on the treatment of congenital heart defects and pediatric heart transplantation.

08-08-2023
Today, a solemn press conference, “Life goes on,” was held, dedicated to the first child-to-child heart transplant in Ukraine, to draw public attention to the achievements of Ukrainian medicine and the importance of the culture of donation.

08-17-2023
The team of the Heart Institute continues its medical journey, and this time, our specialists visited the patients in Kharkiv.

08-30-2023
The team of the Heart Institute received great pleasure from such a meeting: they listened with delight and great respect to Serguei’s story about difficult path to the top of American medicine, discussed the main problems of transplantology, practiced the technique of performing reconstructive interventions on the mitral valve.

09-10-2023
The 25th successful heart transplant for this year took place in cooperation with our colleagues from the Poltava Regional Hospital named after Sklifosovsky. This time, our team saved as many as four lives.

09-12-2023
The conference testifies to the preservation of a high standard of scientific research and continuous professional development of doctors at the departments of the Shupyk National University of Health Care of Ukraine, who work on the basis of the Heart Institute.

09-15-2023
For more than 10 years, the Heart Institute has been closely cooperating with colleagues from Rivne. During this time, almost 4,000 patients with cardiovascular system problems were consulted, and more than 1,000 people were operated.

09-16-2023
Representing the Heart Institute and all of Ukraine in the international medical arena, Prof. Borys Todurov received an award for the best report, in which he shared how the cardiac surgery clinic worked during the war and how the Ukrainian medical front is holding up.

09-19-2023
A professional seminar was held at the Heart Institute on the examination of the results of the dissertation work of Yaroslav Skibchyk

09-21-2023
During the Corporate Day of the Donor at NACP, a total of 38 members of the NACP collected 16 liters of blood, which will be used for the needs of military personnel and civilians undergoing treatment at the Heart Institute.

09-25-2023
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.

10-03-2023
The teams of the Institute and the regional hospital discussed the plan for future cooperation, and shared the experience of treating congenital heart defects and the experience of children’s transplants.

10-08-2023
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.

10-12-2023
A team of arrhythmologists and cardiac surgeons examined about 100 adult and young patients with acquired heart defects, coronary disease, and rhythm disorders.

10-14-2023
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.

10-16-2023
The stationary device was transferred to the in-patient children’s department, and the portable device was transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit. The first patient who tried the benefits of this technique on himself was a Ukrainian who turned 17 days today and was already successfully operated on.

10-25-2023
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.

10-27-2023
During three days, almost seventy children applied for help. They all underwent a diagnostic examination and received consultative assistance. Two children were operated at the City Children’s Hospital.

10-30-2023
The Heat Institute’s team examined about thirty children on the basis of the Chernivtsi Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital. Babies born prematurely and patients of a cardiology hospital were also examined, among whom one child was a pupil of an orphanage.

11-01-2023
The head of the Department of Acquired Heart Defects, Ihor Mokryk, visited the Cardiosurgery Department of the University Clinic in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic). The department is one of the leading cardiac surgery centers in the Czech Republic and Europe.

06-11-2023
The dream is becoming a reality right now – the Heart Institute team has joined the transplant specialists at Stanford Hospital and are getting the experience of transplantation in the American way

10-11-2023
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.

10-11-2023
Colleagues received the speech very warmly with the desire for further support, and we, in turn, expressed our gratitude to the American people for everything they do for us, on behalf of Ukrainian society.

11-17-2023
A patient with severe stenosis of the aortic valve against the background of a narrow annulus was admitted to the Department of Acquired Defects. The team of cardiac surgeons decided to perform aortic valve prosthetics with aortic root enlargement using the Y-incision method.

11-18-2023
The topics of the conference covered the most modern aspects of interventional arrhythmology and medical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Another recent topic of modern arrhythmology and functional diagnostics discussed in detail at the forum is the screening and treatment of asymptomatic atrial arrhythmias.

11-22-2023
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.

11-22-2023
An invaluable opportunity to receive high-tech treatment within the region becomes a reality for parents and young patients. We wish everyone further success and fruitful cooperation so that every heart beats stronger!

11-23-2023
During the internship, our specialists gained invaluable experience in conducting heart transplants and mini-access operations. Transesophageal echocardiography skills have been improved before and during operations, which will enrich the practice and improve outcomes.

11-27-2023
The novelty of the work was in the study of a special category of patients with episodes of atrial fibrillation lasting more than three months, for whom late seeking medical help and the formation of “tachycardiomyopathy” are characteristic. Following a detailed discussion of the results of the work, Yaroslav Skibchyk was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the scientific specialty Cardiology.

11-28-2024
Recently, specialists at the Heart Institute saved the heart of a little girl named Mia. She, along with her grandmother, had been caught in a mortar attack in Kherson. Three fragments of the mine struck Mia’s heart, neck, and leg, while the rest hit her grandmother, who shielded her with her body.

11-29-2023
The main goal of the event was to discuss controversial aspects of the management of patients with coronary heart disease, in particular, determining indications for coronary angiography and revascularization interventions. The seminar was registered by the Testing Center at the Ministry of Health of Ukraine as an event for the continuous professional development of doctors.

12-02-2023
Development of an interesting and at the same time compact program of the school became possible thanks to the involvement of heads of departments, leading specialists of the Heart Institute and departments of the Shupyk National Healthcare University.  The attendees highly appreciated the scientific content of the school, as well as the specially prepared original testing program.

12-07-2023
Our team has undergone important training in echocardiography, endovascular methods of prosthetic valve replacement (TAVI) and mitral insufficiency correction (mitral clip), implantation of the most modern devices to support ventricles in patients with heart failure (Impella) and participated in the newest methods of aortic pathology correction (Exovasc), heart and liver transplants.

12-09-2023
A 58-year-old man from the Kyiv region, who suffered from ischemic cardiomyopathy, received a new organ. The patient fought for his life for more than a year, suffered several heart attacks, and was stented. But the condition kept getting worse.

12-13-2023
During the internship, our specialists took part in daily operations and gained valuable experience in performing minimally invasive interventions.
They had the opportunity to take part in operations on the internal thoracic artery and mitral valve plastic surgery using the da Vinci Surgical System robot.

12-15-2023
Gavryl Kovtun’s speech about the lives of our patients who underwent transplants caused a lot of emotions among the students. We are glad that young people are showing more and more interest in transplantology and are ready to devote their lives to this work.

12-16-2023
The main topics covered in the course are the basics of transplant coordination, transplantation, and educational work with the population regarding donation issues, i.e. organ donation after death, to save other people.

12-21-2023
December 21 is the birthday of the Heart Institute. And the best gift on our solemn day is to be able to give a chance for life.

01-05-2024
This photo was taken at the Heart Institute on January 5th when 7 patients were at the heart transplantation unit—some were already preparing for discharge, while others were still undergoing rehabilitation with us.

02-10-2024
The Heart Institute’s team saved the lives of two young men, aged 23 and 30 from Lviv and the Lugansk region.

02-10-2024
Pediatric specialists from the Heart Institute conducted outpatient consultations for children in Ternopil at the “Malecha” clinic and at the Smolnytsky Clinic in Kamianets-Podilskyi.

02-15-2024
Considering the high surgical risks associated with repeat interventions, our team of cardiothoracic surgeons decided to perform a minimally invasive procedure: transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

02-22-2024
A 47-year-old woman presented to the Heart Institute complaining of general weakness, chest pain, and dizziness during physical exertion. Diagnostic examinations revealed a rare pathology—a giant coronary-atrial fistula. The surgical team decided to close the fistula endovascularly using spiral systems.

02-23-2024
The patient underwent surgery, including left hemihepatectomy, excision of the hepaticocholedochus, caudate lobectomy, resection and reconstruction of the middle hepatic artery, D3 lymphadenectomy.
No postoperative complications were observed, and the patient was discharged for outpatient treatment on the 12th day after the intervention.

03-01-2024
This internship was made possible through close collaboration between the administration of the Heart Institute and the French government, and upon the invitation of Dr. Mykola Myroshnyk, co-founder of the French-Ukrainian School of Advanced Doppler Echocardiography.

03-04-2024
The courage, dedication, and honesty of this young man at just 19 years old are impressive. For over 2 years, he has been defending our country and each one of us.

03-15-2024
The main goal of this annual conference was to familiarize practicing physicians with the modern capabilities of functional diagnostic methods in cardiology. Over 600 specialists from various specialties across Ukraine registered to participate in the forum.

03-06-2024
It is challenging to imagine the difficult conditions under which local medical professionals are currently working. Despite this, they tirelessly save children’s lives every day and, during air raids, guide them to bomb shelters.

03-17-2024
For this transplantation, the donor’s heart traveled a distance of over 300 km, which our team covered in just under 4 hours. In a groundbreaking move for Ukraine, we implemented the new Stanford technique, allowing for extended preservation and transportation time for the donor organ.

03-20-2024
The collaboration between the Heart Institute and the Ternopil Regional Clinical Hospital continues to benefit our cardiac patients. In the Cardiac Surgery Department of the Ternopil Regional Clinical Hospital, cardiac surgeon Prof. Oleksandr Romaniuk from the Heart Institute, along with his team, performed unique Ross procedures.

03-28-2024
The ongoing support from The Eneida Foundation strengthens our medical professionals’ resolve to fight for the health and lives of Ukrainians during these challenging times.

04-05-2024
Over 5 days, doctors from Zakarpattia enhanced their skills under the guidance of our leading experts.

04-09-2024
The scientific program included a presentation by staff members from the Functional Diagnostics Department and the Heart Institute focusing on the management of patients with persistent atrial fibrillation episodes.

04-10-2024
At the largest cardiac hospital in Canada, the Toronto General Hospital (Peter Munk Cardiac Center), the training was conducted under the guidance of the legendary cardiac surgeon, Dr. Tyrone David. In the American clinic Cedars-Sinai, the mentor was the brilliant Dr. Joanna Chikwe.

04-13-2024
At the congress opening, the director of the Heart Institute, Prof. Borys Todurov, delivered a 30-minute presentation on transplantation during wartime. This opening presentation garnered an extraordinary reaction from the global medical community.

04-24-2024
The main goal of the event was to discuss controversial aspects of managing patients with heart failure, in particular, drug therapy and indications for the use of devices, endovascular and cardiosurgical interventions.

04-27-2024
Doctors from the Heart Institute presented our experience in using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

05-02-2024
Conducting the training was an important step in the introduction of modern formats of continuous professional development of doctors at the Department of Functional Diagnostics and at the Heart Institute. The experience gained will be used in the planning of training of other methods of functional diagnostics, in particular, echocardiography.

05-07-2024
As part of the cooperation, the Institute’s specialists will have access to European diagnostic facilities to be able to identify a rare hereditary disease in Ukrainian patients – Fabry’s disease.

05-18-2024
The “Modern Cardiology” conference became an extremely important stage of cooperation between the Heart Institute and the cardiology clinic of Vilnius University. Special thanks to our partners – the pharmaceutical company “Darnytsia”! We hope that the “Modern Cardiology” conference will become a good tradition.

05-27-2024
The presentations at the Euroanesthesia 2024 Congress not only demonstrate the achievements of Ukrainian healthcare but also contributes to the integration of Ukrainian specialists into the international medical community, raising the level of medical services in Ukraine and contributing to the development of science and education in the field of anesthesiology and intensive care.

05-27-2024
Our patient, who was one of the first to undergo a heart transplant with us in 2020, Serhiy Kozachok, has now visited us as the director of a public organization “Born Again” whose main purpose is to popularize transplantation in Ukraine and help those who need it or those who have already passed through it.

05-29-2024
A few years ago, each of these operations was an event, and people excitedly followed the work of the doctors, the courage of the patients, and the greatness of the decision of the donors’ families with sinking hearts.

05-30-2024
We hope that such meetings and exchanges of experiences will occur on an ongoing basis because they are a great support on this difficult path, as well as an opportunity to hear the real needs of such patients and help them!

06-05-2024
Reports on the most relevant issues of modern arrhythmology were included in the rich program of the almost 4-hour master class.

06-18-2024
Our anesthesiologists, Anna Dobrovolska and Khrystyna Palyga, completed an internship at the multidisciplinary clinic of Acibadem Hastanesi. During the week, doctors improved their professional skills,  got acquainted with new approaches in cardiac surgery and transplantology, and studied the experience of Turkish colleagues in conducting minimally invasive operations.

06-20-2024
The team of the Heart Institute performed a successful heart transplant at the Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Hospital. This is already the 104th heart transplant of the team in the last three years.

07-01-2024
Recently, our team performed an extremely complex operation on 87-year-old Kim Pylypovich. Imagine: a person is almost 90 years old, yet he is ready to fight for her health and the joy of life!

07-09-2024
It is exactly 1 year between these photos and then it was the second birthday of our Solomiyka, who has already become a symbol of Ukrainian transplantology.

07-16-2024
Our team began their journey in New York, where they had the honor of studying with Prof. Robert Montgomery – Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Center in New York. This clinic is a leader in lung transplantation. The knowledge and experience gained there will help save even more lives in Ukraine.

07-22-2024
Here, high-tech heart surgeries are performed and the specialists have some of the best results in treating patients after heart and lung transplants. Our doctors participated in organ harvesting and operations. American colleagues introduced the postoperative care of patients after organ transplantation.

07-26-2024
Prof. Tyrone David invited our team to visit the famous clinic and have the opportunity to learn – this is an invaluable experience for our specialists! We continue to study to develop Ukrainian transplantology to the world’s top.

08-09-2024
It seemed that there was no hope: a complex heart disease became an obstacle to a kidney transplant, and the lack of kidney function did not allow heart surgery.

08-28-2024
We sincerely thank our friends from Germany for their care! Your support helps us save more lives and develop transplantation in Ukraine. Special thanks to Prof. Christine Falk, Director of the Institute of Transplant Immunology at the Medizinishe Hochschule Hannover.

09-05-2024
Based on the positive reviews of the reviewers and taking into account the results of the scientific discussion, the works of postgraduate students of the department are recommended for awarding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

09-16-2024
Our doctors also studied new methods of operations and transplants. They assisted in operations on the heart and lungs and got acquainted with perfusion technologies and anesthesiological support of the clinic and the general organization of work. As part of the visit, Prof. Borys Todurov gave a speech on wartime medicine and transplantation at the Scandinavian Congress of Thoracic Surgeons in Gothenburg, Sweden.

09-20-2024
A little more than a month has passed since the heart transplant and we see a beautiful woman, wife, and mother of three children, smiling, walking, and enjoying life. We rejoice together with her and wish her a long and happy life!

09-23-2024
These awards recognize the invaluable contribution of our doctors to preserving the health and lives of patients, especially in this difficult time for the country. Congratulations on the well-deserved awards and thank you for your tireless work!

09-23-2024
The opening of the new MRI cabinet was not only a symbolic launch of equipment that will help save people’s lives in Ukraine but also a platform for discussing the achievements and future prospects of this important project.

10-12-2024
For the first time, a report on the work of our transplant team during the war was presented for active participation at the European Congress of Cardiothoracic Surgeons. We thank the organizers for the opportunity to present Ukraine at such an important congress.

10-15-2024
Prof. Borys Todurov, director of the Heart Institute, received an honorary invitation to speak at the Dinon Memorial Lecture at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. This is a significant event for Ukrainian medicine!

10-20-2024
The team of the Heart Institute took part in the EABM 2024 annual conference in Romania at the invitation of the President of the Euro-Asian Bridge Society of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons, Prof. Grigori Tinica. For outstanding achievements in cardiac surgery during the war, Prof. Borys Todurov was awarded a special award by the association.

10-24-2024
During the conference, the results of scientific research by doctors of the Heart Institute and postgraduate students of the departments of the Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine. The conference addressed the priority areas of cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology in the work of the Heart Institute.

10-26-2024
A special event took place – the “The Heart Beats” conference, where those who develop transplantology in Ukraine and those who received a second chance at life thanks to donation met.

11-02-2024
Medical progress and technology are developing at lightning speed, so our doctors try to keep up with the speed of the modern world, despite the difficult times for our country, to improve the quality of medical services and the level of professional care.

11-07-2024
For the first time, Ukraine took part in the DTG 2024 German congress of transplant specialists in Freiburg. The country was represented by the Heart Institute’s team: Prof. Borys Todurov, Sofia Chaikovska, Ihor Kuzmych, Mykola Melnyk. The invitation of the Director of the Heart Institute, Prof. Borys Todurov to give a speech at the opening of the congress was especially honorable.

11-11-2024
With the assistance of the Minister of Health of Lower Saxony Dr. Andreas Philippi, a press conference was held with Prof. Borys Todurov, the directors of the MNN clinic, and the Minister, where the main issues of assistance to Ukraine, promotion of training exchange between doctors of the clinics in the field of transplantation and future scientific cooperation were discussed.

11-15-2024
The success of the conference testifies to the active work and unity of arrhythmological centers in implementing the latest approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias and heart blocks, and to the continuous professional development of cardiologists and doctors of related specialties.