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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.