Departament of X-ray Diagnostics and of Invasive Cardiology

Chief - Yevgen V. Aksionov, M.D., Ph.D, physician of higher qualifying category.

The department has two units of a modern X-ray electronic equipment, that allows to conduct all kinds of a complex X-ray-surgical interventions :
• intracardiac diagnostic examination;
• catheterization of the heart and vessels;
• transluminal coronary interventions (angioplasty and stenting) in patients with a chronic form of ischemic heart disease and in cases of acute myocardial infarction;
• transseptal punctures;
• angiocardiography;
• left ventriculography;
• aortography;
• coronarography;
• angiography of a head and shoulders, visceral, renal and of peripheral arteries;
• venography.

More than two thousands patients with heart lesions and ischemic heart disease are examined in the department annually.

For the first time in the Commonwealth of Independent States transluminal balloon valvuloplasty in pulmonary artery stenoses and other heart lesions were performed in the department.

The staff of the department performs about 600 endovascular interventions in a different heart lesions and ischemic heart disease annually.

The department performs training of the specialists in endovascular methods of diagnostics and treatment of cardiac and vessel diseases for the regional cardiac centers of Ukraine and abroad.

Invasive endovascular interventions :
The department is equipped with the most modern dvuproektsiornnym angiography Siemens AXIOM Artis Zee, which allows for all kinds of endovascular intervention:
• endovascular closure of a heart septal defects with occluders;
• endovascular closure of a ductus arteriosus;
• angioplasty and stenting of aortic coarctation;
• endoprosthesis of the aorta with aortic aneurysms;
• balloon valvuloplasty in pulmonary artery valve stenosis, in aortic valve stenosis, in mitral valve stenosis;
• pericardial punctures;
• atrioseptostomy (Rashkind procedure);
• foreign body eliminations from vessels and from heart chambers.

The Department performs more than 350 interventional procedures for congenital and structural heart defects annually. Experts organize outreach workshops in Ukraine, cooperation with clinics in Europe and the USA is organized.