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.

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

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 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.