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…

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.

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 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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.