Republican Scientific And Practical Centre “Cardiology”

The State Institution “Republican Scientific And Practical Centre "Cardiology" is a fundamental scientific, medical, organizational and methodical institution of cardiology and cardiac care adult population of Belarus and non-residents.

The Centre provides a full range of medical care in cardiology and cardiac surgery.

The staff members of the Centre are highly qualified medical care providers  (more than 200) and  nurses (400).

Seventy researchers work in scientific units, including 2 academicians of the NASB, 1 corresponding member of NASB, 10 professors, 15 PhDs, and 62 candidates of sciences.

Care providers who have academic degrees manage clinical departments and permanently involve themselves into research.

The Republican Scientific and Clinical Center "Cardiology“ includes:

• Сardiotherapy clinic (75 beds);
• the clinic for cardiac surgery (75 beds);
• two X-ray surgical and scientific subdivisions;

The Research Department comprises 11 research laboratories of:

• heart surgery;
• vascular surgery;
• arterial hypertension;
• emergency and interventional cardiology;
• cardiac rhythm disturbances;
• functional group  of  circulatory clinical pathophysiology;
• chronic ischemic heart disease;
• chronic heart failure;
• health information technology;
• rehabilitation of cardiologic and cardiosurgical patients;

The structure of the Centre also includes:

Advisory for adults and children outpatient departments, clinical diagnostic laboratory, department of functional diagnostics, US, exercise therapy gym for rehabilitation for patients who underwent cardiac surgery, physical rehabilitation for patients after myocardial infarction, and a cabinet of physiotherapeutic treatment.

Capacities of the Сentre allows making full and thorough examination and providing care for cardiac patients as soon as possible.

• Differential diagnosis and treatment of all forms of ischemic heart disease
• arrhythmia (tachi- and bradyarrhythmia, combined with cardiac defects, CHD and cardiomyopathies)
• acquired and congenital cardiac defects
• heart failure
• vascular pathology
• aortal impairment
• brachiocephalic artery impairment
• renal artery impairment
• lower extremity vascular impairment
• other visceral vascular  impairments
• myoardites and pericardites
• cardiac tumor
• cardiomyopathies
• other  cardiac pathologies

Each year the Centre admits 5.5 thousand people, and more than 30 000 individuals receive specialist  advisory.

Treatment options

Therapeutic (medical, physiotherapeutic)

Interventional treatment methods: CHD and peripheral aretry diseases (balloon angioplasty, stenting), heart defects (ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, PDA closure), arrhythmias and chronic heart failure (radiofrequency ablation, resynchronizing therapy). Pacemaker implanting and programming

Surgical treatment:(coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), MCBG, congenital and acquired heart defect correction, heart valvular prostheses  & reconstruction, arterial, aortal prosthesis, venous surgeries), transmyocardial laser revascularization

Every year more than 3 thousands of heart surgeries  are performed.

The operations distribution is the following:

• 40-45%-open heart operations,
• 20-25% in heart rhythm disturbances
• 15-20%-X-ray endovascularvascular surgeries, and
• 10%- vascular surgeries

The equipment available in the Centre meets world standards.

Heart transplantation

The team guided by Prof. Y. Ostrovsky performed the first heart transplant surgery ever made in Belarus in February 2009. In 2012, the first heart and kidney transplant surgery was performed.

Over the last 7 years, a total of 160 operations.
 

Address: Republic of Belarus, 220036, 110, R. Luxembourg str., Minsk

Phones:  + 375 172073956,   + 375 333509844 gsm

Fax number: +375 172073956

Web-site: en.cardio.by

E-mail: ovbd@cardio.by

Skype: cardio-minsk