A unique operation was performed at the Feofaniya hospital: surgeons removed a bullet from the heart without stopping it. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, doctors saved the life of 20-year-old Ukrainian soldier Vladimir Gordienko.

He miraculously managed to escape from the captivity of the invaders and survive after interrogations, torture and shelling of the car in which he escaped with his comrades. Two days through the forest, Vladimir got to his. Later it became known that he was walking with a bullet in the heart and pneumohemothorax.. And I was able to get.

First aid was provided to Vladimir in Malin, and then he was sent to the Zhytomyr Regional Hospital, where they found out that there was a foreign object in the guy’s heart. After that, Vladimir was sent to the Center for Innovative Cardiac Surgery at the Feofaniya Hospital..

Here, doctors discovered that in the wall of the left ventricle, one and a half millimeters from the cavity of the heart, there is a fragment. Such a wound could lead to a through hole in the heart, or a fragment could migrate and cause a stroke or loss of a limb..

The complex operation took five hours and was successful, the doctors operated on a beating heart with the help of special stabilizers. A few hours after the operation, Vladimir was already talking, and the next day he was walking..

On the eve of his birthday, the warrior was discharged from the hospital, but is still in touch with doctors.