30.10.2011
There have been other minimally invasive cardiac procedures performed at the Institute of Cardiology Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology. They included mitral valvuloplasty and closing of a superior vena cava-type atrial septal defect .Operations of this type are carried out through an approximately 2-inch incision in the chest wall (minithoracotomy).
23.09.2011
On the 16th of September 2011, the Warsaw Institute of Cardiology Hemodynamic Laboratory broadcast two direct television trasmissions of percutaneous coronary intervention procedures to Venice, where the International Symposium “Chronic Total Occlusion and Bifurcation Interventions’ was held.
28.08.2011
We are pleased to announce that since perfoming the first intravascular pulmonary valve implantation; i.e. 18th December.2008, the Institute of Cardiology has performed 30 such procedures. Of note is the implementation of this method also in patients with a large right ventricular outflow tract, with the use of Edwards Sapien valves.
04.05.2011
On the 29th April 2011, Poland’s first transvascular non-surgical pulmonary valve implantations, with the use of a new type of valve, were perfomed at the Institute of Cardiology. The method of treatment was used in patients who had developed right ventricular outflow tract dysfunction after a previous surgical correction of a heart defect.
