Medics transported a donor heart from Vinnitsa to Kyiv by helicopter, saving a 15-year-old boy who could not be delivered.
In Ukraine, for the first time since the beginning of a large-scale invasion, a donor heart was delivered by heaven to a patient. With the consent of the relatives of the 40-year-old deceased woman, doctors performed four successful organ transplants. This was announced on Friday, June 9, by the Ministry of Health.
It was noted that 15-year-old Maxim from Vradiyevka, Mykolaiv region, developed heart problems after contracting the coronavirus in February this year. Doctors diagnosed him with incurable dilated cardiomyopathy. Only a transplant could save the young man.
“The man spent a month in intensive care. His life was saved by relatives of a 40-year-old woman who was diagnosed with brain death due to a ruptured aneurysm at the Vinnitsa Regional Clinical Psychoneurological Hospital named AI Yushchenko. It was they who agreed to remove the deceased’s organs. This decision of his family helped save the lives of four people, including 15-year-old Maxim,” the statement said.
The information system found Maxim’s compatibility with the donor, but the doctors faced a problem: the donor heart “lives” for only a few hours. During this time, it needs to be transported, prepared for transfer and the procedure carried out.
For the sake of saving the boy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs raised a helicopter in the sky, and an hour later the donor organ was delivered from Vinnitsa to the Heart Institute in Kyiv.
While Maxim was undergoing a heart transplant, two other hospitals were performing transplants. A kidney was transplanted to 16-year-old Dmytro Dubnyk from the Poltava region at NUCL Okhmatdet. And at the National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology named after AA Shalimov, a liver was transplanted to a 46-year-old woman from Kiev and a kidney to a 22-year-old man.
The Ministry of Health said all the transplants were successful. All patients are in stable condition.
It will be remembered that in April, the first heart transplant was performed in Vinnitsa. The operation on a 42-year-old patient took more than four hours.
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Source: korrespondent
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