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Ivan Miskiv, director of anesthesia at Lviv emergency hospital, said the man who underwent a heart transplant in Lviv on December 25 underwent a successful operation and the organ took root. However, the man died on January 3 as a result of multiple organ failure.
Eduard, 30, from Mukachevo, Transcarpathian region, who received a donor heart on December 25 in Lviv, died on January 3 as a result of multiple organ failure. On January 4, the medical director of anesthesia at the Lviv emergency hospital, Ivan Miskiv, told Galnet about this.
“Multiple organ failure led to liver and kidney failure. They became the consequences of heart failure, which made the patient need a heart transplant. Unfortunately, we could not cope with decompensation (interruption of the functioning of a separate organ ) in the liver and kidneys The patient underwent several sessions of hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration (extrarenal methods of blood purification), established extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (blood oxygenation method), but this did not give the desired positive result and the patient died, ”he said.
The doctor also clarified that the death of the patient is not related to the work of the heart.
“The patient was fully compatible with the donor, so we made the decision to transplant. The operation was successful. The grafted heart. It worked well. After the man’s death, there were no complaints about the work of the heart in the post-mortem examination. “added the doctor.
The heart of a Mukachevo resident was transplanted on December 25 at the Lviv emergency hospital. The operation was carried out for free, said the city’s mayor, Andrei Sadovy. The donor was a woman hospitalized with a severe heart attack.
In Ukraine, as of January 1, 2019, a law allowing organ transplantation is in force. It says that all adult citizens of Ukraine can accept the posthumous donation or decline it. Information about this can be entered in the passport or driver’s license, as well as information about consent to posthumous donation will be entered without fail in the Unified State Transplant Information System.
According to the Ministry of Health, the medical institutions of Kiev, Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Lvov, Dnipro, Odessa and Kovel are engaged in organ transplantation in Ukraine. At the same time, the Ministry of Health noted that doctors not enough donor organs.
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