Doctors at the Molinette hospital in Turin, Italy, announced on March 19 that they had successfully implanted a transcatheter mitral valve prosthesis into a beating heart: this type of operation was the first in the world, according to ANSA..

The patient was a 62-year-old woman with mitral regurgitation who had multiple risk factors that made it too risky to implant a valve with the traditional method using extracorporeal circulation..

The installed prosthesis called Epygon was developed by French and Italian scientists..

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At a time when some doctors perform progressive operations and do their best to help humanity, others continue to engage in corruption, and Ukrainians are far from an exception in this..

The leadership of the National Health Service of Ukraine is aware of corruption in hospitals, but does not want to take one of the available and effective steps to reduce it - to completely transfer the accounting of medical equipment to the Electronic Health System. Oksana Sukhorukova, ex-director of the monitoring department of the NSZU, told a ZN journalist about such a problem.. UA Alli Kotlyar in an interview “NSZU is still not ready for war. Why Doctors and Patients Suffer.