Mitkovskaya: Belarusian cardiac surgeons broke into world transplantology
Director of the Cardiology Republican Scientific and Practical Centre Natalia Mitkovskaya spoke about the achievements of Belarusian doctors in her talk with STV TV channel
“Belarusian cardiac surgeons broke into the world transplantology,” she stressed. “We’re currently ranked in top-10 countries worldwide. We are leaders in the post-Soviet space. Of course, this causes great respect from professionals in other countries.”
The Director of the Cardiology Republican Scientific and Practical Centre also drew attention to the good results not only in building up experience in this area, but also in terms of patient survival, in terms of postoperative mortality. “We are at the stage when we are already expanding the circle of recipients, i.e., people who are subjected to this intervention. We take on the operating table very serious patients with a very high postoperative risk, those who have 20-30 percent mortality in world cardiology, transplantology, even in the leading centres of the world. Recently we had such joy as an attempt to help a very small 9-year-old girl, whose situation developed very badly and quickly. We were forced to take her to the operating table for urgent, vital indications. There were many problems during the postoperative period. Our esteemed colleagues infection disease doctors, epidemiologists, microbiologists, and paediatricians helped us a lot, and everything ended well: the girl was discharged home.”
“We have reached the world-class waiting list across almost all areas. For urgent cardiac surgery, we have a waiting list for about one and a half to two months. This is how it should be for cardiac surgery to work smoothly. The only section of clinical medicine in cardiology, where we still have a rather significant queue, is for patients with rhythm disturbances. There are about 600 people here – a year of work. But I must underline that our specialists in rhythmology are now working so intensively that we expect that we will be able to cope with this queue much faster and enter the same normal rhythmic period of activity,” added Natalya Mitkovskaya.
