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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.