The first heart transplant in Czechoslovakia was performed 50 years ago

First cardiac transplantation in the former Czechoslovakia, but also in Central and Eastern Europe, it took place exactly half a year ago in Bratislava.

July 9, 2018

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TASR archive

The first heart transplant in the former Czechoslovakia, but at the same time
in Central and Eastern Europe, a medical team led by Prof.
MD. Karola Šišek, DrSc. and doc. MD. Ladislav Kužel, DrSc. 50 years ago
July 9, 1968 the II. Surgical Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of the University
Komenského (LF UK) at Partizánska Street in Bratislava

First, the patient after the operation is dead
consequences of other diseases. It was in the order of 24. heart transplantation on
world. (note: On the archive image of 9 July 1968 in Bratislava
performed the first heart transplant in the former Czechoslovakia. patient
was Sharlota Horváth, who despite all the care
)

The fall of the balcony

Transplantation with non-circulating blood was preceded by an experimental and
clinical preparation. In 1966-1968, MUDr. Cone on the study
staying at the Pacific Medical Center in the United States of America, where after
he defended his thesis and received his Master of Clinical degree
Sciences

He was the initiator of this transplant after his return to Slovakia.
The gift of the heart was a 46-year-old man who suffered a fatal brain injury to
a fall from the balcony and the recipient a 54-year-old woman.

The surgery lasted more than five hours. Even on July 9, 1968, however
there was a sad report – the transplanted heart failed. The patient is dead
still in the operating room for the consequences of other diseases.

Christiaan's first historic heart transplant in the world
Neethling Barnard December 3, 1967, in Cape Town, South Africa
(JAR). The reactions were different – from enthusiasm to skepticism

Even with us

However, this very first heart transplant was very
a strong motivation for dozens and hundreds of cardiac surgeons who decided

They also joined a group of doctors in Bratislava where they did the first but
failure of cardiac transplantation in former Czechoslovakia on 9 July
1968. Similarly, most of the efforts of the transplant teams ended

The first heart

The first successful heart transplant in the former Czechoslovakia
the surgeon Pavel Firt on January 31, 1984 at the Prague Clinical Institute
Experimental Medicine (IKEM). The beneficiary lived with a second heart for 13 years and
died of kidney failure due to long-term pharmacology

The first heart in the history of the independent Slovak Republic (SR) transplanted
team of doctors and nurses under the direction of the MUDr cardiac surgeon. Viliam Fischera,
CSc., FICS on the night of March 20 to 21, 1998 at the National Institute of Cardiology and Cardiology
(19659011) Štefan Petrík from Jura nad Hronom lived with a new heart of 9.5 years,
he did not die of heart disease. Systemic Cardiac Transplant Program
Slovakia was founded by Prof. MD. Juraj Fabián, DrSc., FESC. From the beginning
transplant program in Slovakia are continually prepared by teams,
who are able to transplant the heart in about five hours

Patients can then lead a full life. NÚSCH, a. its
the only place of work in Slovakia where cardiac transplants are performed

Cardiac transplantation is the standard treatment method differently
of chronic heart failure inevitable. The number of patients who would like
necessary treatment, increases steadily. ide

Photo: archive, TASR

source: TASR