For the first time in Georgia, the rarest cardiovascular surgery successfully performed by world-class Georgian surgeons!<\/p>\n
On January 8, a 50-year-old male patient was taken to the ,,Open Heart\u2019\u2019 Cardiac Surgery Clinic where he underwent an urgent operation: Resection of aortic arch and descending aortic Dissected aneurysm Infected Endoprosthesis, and replacement with vascular prosthesis, with reimplantation of left subclavian artery.<\/p>\n
In 2016, the patient underwent aortic arch and descending aortic Endoprosthetic procedure for aneurysm dissection. For the last 3 months, the patient has started a fever, has been on long-term antibiotic therapy. Clinical trials and CT angiography proved infection of endoprosthesis, which was an immediate indication for surgical intervention.<\/p>\n
The operation was carried out by: Tornike Sologashvili<\/em><\/strong>, (Cardiac Surgeon, Head of direction of pediatric Cardiac Surgery – Clinic Open Heart, Tbilisi, Georgia; Head of Clinic in the Cardiovascular Surgery Department – Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland), Jumber Partsakhashvili<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 (Vascular Surgeon, Clinic Open Heart, Tbilisi, Georgia; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), Amiran Phrangishvili<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 (Cardiac Surgeon – Clinic Open Heart, Tbilisi, Georgia)<\/p>\n Highly trained team of cardiac and vascular surgeons, anesthesiologists, reanimatologists and perfusionists were fully involved in the operation and postoperation follow-up.<\/p>\n Currently the patient is in stable condition and his postoperative treatment continues in the cardio-intensive ward.<\/p>\n