Students of the Russian cardiologist and cardiac surgeon, academician Vladimir Burakovsky performed heart surgery using his method at the Bakulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow. This was reported on September 27 by the correspondent of the Izvestia TV channel.
Coronary artery bypass grafting was performed at the medical center, which is aimed at preventing heart complications.
“Their own vessels are sutured to bypass the narrowed or completely clogged sections of the coronary arteries and thus the blood flow of the heart muscle is restored,” said Mikhail Alshibaya, head of the department for the surgical treatment of coronary heart disease at the Bakulev Center.
He noted that the total duration of the operation is about five hours. At the same time, recovery is fast, and the actions of cardiac surgeons prolong the life of patients by 20-30 years.
According to the doctor, the operations take place in the same operating room where Burakovsky once worked.
“It is a great honor for me to work in this building, where he spent almost his entire surgical life. And to operate in the same operating room where Vladimir Ivanovich performed his wonderful, sometimes pioneering, operations with world priorities, ”Alshibaya noted.
The director of the institution, Elena Golukhova, added that the center’s specialists also take on the most difficult cases and save the lives of patients, among whom there are children with congenital heart disease.
“Our center is the absolute leader in the number of surgeries for congenital heart defects. About 1,000 of them are newborns and children under one year old,” she said.
In total, more than 2,700 such operations, as Golukhova pointed out, have already been performed.
Earlier in September, it was reported that military cardiac surgeons of the National Medical Center for High Medical Technologies – Central Military Clinical Hospital named after. A.A. Vishnevsky, the Ministry of Defense of Russia for the first time carried out the implantation of a circulatory assist system – an artificial left ventricle of the heart. The first operation of this type in the history of military medicine was performed on a patient with chronic heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy.
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