A unique heart surgery was performed in Belarus - for the first time the valve was implanted in a previously installed prosthesis

In RSPC "Cardiology" conducted a unique operation to correct tricuspid valve insufficiency (TC). This was reported in the RSPC "Cardiology", writes sb.by.

At the time of admission to the RSPC “Cardiology”, the patient born in 1959 suffered from chronic heart failure due to severe dysfunction of the previously implanted ring of the TC corrector. Given the extremely high risk of repeated cardiac surgery, she was recommended correction of valvular pathology by X-ray endovascular method.

The operation on transcatheter implantation of the TC was performed by a multidisciplinary team led by the head of the X-ray surgery department of interventional cardiology, K. M. N. Oleg Polonetsky and the head of the department of interventional cardiology, MD, associate professor Valery Stelmashko.

The uniqueness of the operation is that for the first time in Belarus, the valve is implanted in a previously installed prosthesis – a proofreader. The Ministry of health: the incidence of digestive organs in children over the past 15 years decreased