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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.