Sergei Sobyanin: Unique pulmonary artery surgery in children performed in Moscow

Doctors at the Morozov Children’s City Clinical Hospital performed Russia’s first-ever trailblazing surgery to install an improved pulmonary artery valve prosthesis via transcatheter, Sergei Sobyanin shares on his Telegram channel.

This type of valve is placed in adolescents who had some congenital heart defects corrected in infancy. As the child grows, the absence of the pulmonary valve may result in heart failure, requiring repeated surgery.

“The new self-expanding valve has a wider range of applications and can very precisely “fit” into the artery and restore the function of the pulmonary valve. The operation is performed through a leg vein, and this approach helps avoid complicated repeat open-heart surgery,” the Moscow Mayor noted.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin

The first patients who underwent the operation, teenagers aged 15 and 16, are feeling well. They were discharged from hospital a few days after the intervention.

Previous generation valves were also pioneered by doctors at the Morozov Children’s Hospital, and it remains the pacesetter in such operations for the third consecutive year.