A unique heart surgery was performed in Lviv for the first time without a chest incision.

According to ТСН: In Lviv, at the Heart and Vascular Clinic of the University Hospital, a surgery that restores blood flow in the heart without a chest incision was successfully performed for the first time in Ukraine. Previously, this method was only used in Odesa.

The patient was 74-year-old Krzysztof Savchuk from Warsaw, who has been living in Ukraine for over 10 years. After a heart attack and standard stenting, he began to feel weakness and shortness of breath. The doctors offered him a new method that is especially effective for calcified vessels.

“Standard methods can be less effective for patients with highly calcified vessels,” explained the head of the Heart and Vascular Clinic, Dmytro Besh. “Orbital atherectomy allows safely grinding down calcium and effectively placing a stent.”

The procedure lasts about an hour. Using a catheter, a special diamond drill is introduced into the patient's vessel, which rotates and grinds the calcium into micro-particles.

Only two days later, Krzysztof was able to return home to continue gardening and taking care of chickens.

The surgery was performed by interventional cardiovascular surgeons Dmytro Besh and Krzysztof Puydak (Germany), who also provided the hospital with modern equipment for optical coherence tomography. This will help improve the effectiveness of stenting and intervention outcomes in the future.

Such innovations indicate the rapid progress of Ukrainian medicine, which is successfully adapting to modern technologies. The application of innovative treatment methods not only improves the quality of medical services but also increases patients' chances of a quick recovery. The active development of medical technologies in Ukraine positively impacts citizens' health, opening new opportunities for treating cardiovascular diseases.