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At the very end of the previous year, experts coming from the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases \u201cDedinje\u201d implanted a total artificial heart in a forty-four-year-old patient, Aleksandar Vukovi\u0107 from Sombor. After the artificial heart implantation, the patient had two huge inguinal hernias removed, which caused numerous problems. This successful team led by ass. Dr Sasa Borovi\u0107, included medical doctors \u2013 specialists in various fields, including dr Dragana Ko\u0161evi\u0107, dr Mladen Bori\u010di\u0107, dr Dragana Uni\u0107 \u2013 Stojanovi\u0107, dr Sini\u0161a Jagodi\u0107, dr Ljubomir \u0110okovi\u0107, perfusers and intensive care nurses. The first total artificial heart was implanted four and a half years ago, and only in 2021, four patients received this artificial organ. Aleksandar Vukovi\u0107 is the fifth patient to receive this life-saving organ for him, and now, when Aleksandar, accompanied by his family, leaves the Institute completely recovered, doctor announce the sixth implantation. <\/p>\n
Considering the number of implantations performed, the news regarding the implantation of a total artificial heart would not be ground-breaking if the doctors from Dedinje had not performed another feat: Just two weeks after the implantation, Aleksandar underwent bilateral hernioplasty. The surgeons, dr Marko Kalezi\u0107 and dr Dejan Stojakov, both from the CHC \u201cDr Dragi\u0161a Mi\u0161ovi\u0107\u201d, removed two huge inguinal hernias from the patient, which, no surgeon had dared to operate on before, due to the risk of heart failure. <\/p>\n
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– This was a very demanding procedure when, for the first time in the world, a bilateral hernioplasty was successfully performed at the Institute \u201cDedinje\u201d, immediately after the artificial heart implantation, which makes this event special. Each new feature confirms that our house is an institution of the highest rank in the world, where new procedures and new achievements are simply taken for granted. That is the true purpose of existence of this institution, which will be even more ready for new, modern medical endeavors with the opening of \u201cDedinje 2\u201d. We take special pride in the fact that we paid special attention to the cardiac insufficiency treatment in our programs. By establishing the Center for Cardiac Insufficiency we created an extraordinary team of experts who devoted themselves to treating the most severe heart patients in such a serious and successful manner – said prof. Dr. Milovan Boji\u0107, Director of the Institute \u201cDedinje\u201d while addressing the media on the occasion of these successfully conducted operations. <\/p>\n
Cardiac surgeon Sa\u0161a Borovi\u0107, who was the leader of the team, explained that it was very important for Serbian citizens suffering from severe heart failure, to remain calm and to be convinced that this health institution provided treatments for the most severe form of cardiac insufficiency, which helped patients hope that the artificial heart provided to them would enable them to receive a donor organ someday.<\/p>\n
– Until now, the most difficult heart patients could not find such solutions in Serbia, and now \u201cDedinje\u201d offers them a solution in the form of an artificial heart, which is a survival bridge until a possible transplant appears. Despite difficulties during the pandemic, our patients should know that we are there for them at all times and that modern medicine, which we continuously adopt, offers solutions for the most serious diseases \u2013 dr Sa\u0161a Borovi\u0107 said. <\/p>\n
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– Seeking salvation, Alexander came to our Institute in a very difficult condition. Although the prognosis was not promising, we did our best, following the latest guidelines for the treatment of cardiac insufficiency. We managed to stabilize his condition and maintain it with medication therapy for four years until he had an opportunity to receive an artificial heart as a substitute for his completely failing heart. Now he can calmly wait for the transplant. Cardiac insufficiency diseases are more lethal than malignant ones. Studies show that three times more patients die from a failing heart than from malignancy. Treatment of malignant diseases has always implied urgency which is not the case with cardiac insufficiency. Cardiac insufficiency treatment implies serious team work of medical doctors specializing in all fields, which is implemented in our institution. End-stage heart failure is a serious disease, but it does not have to lethal. We exist because of such patients – cardiologist dr Dragana Ko\u0161evi\u0107 said. <\/p>\n
– I am very happy that Aleksandar is recovering and going home to his family. I am proud that prof. Stojakov and I were a part of this team. I am glad that there is an extraordinary cooperation between our two institutions. It was a great challenge to perform this operation on a patient with recently implanted artificial heart, but we succeeded together – dr Marko Kalezi\u0107 from CHC \u201cDr Dragi\u0161a Mi\u0161ovi\u0107\u201d said. <\/p>\n
– I feel great. Yesterday, I walked a whole kilometer through the hospital corridor, as well as 26 recommended steps. I am immensely grateful to the entire team of the Institute. I feel like Leonid, like a Spartan. I always carry a picture of Phoenix with me, because it is my trademark. I have risen from the ashes and come back from the dead three times so far – said the patient Aleksandar Vukovi\u0107. <\/p>\n
The artificial heart implantation program will continue to be developed as an extraordinary way to once again make the Institute \u201cDedinje\u201d a part of the transplant program of Serbia.<\/p>\n
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