Month: January 2022

The clinic has a modern equipped outpatient clinic where consultative, control and preventive examinations are performed.

The clinic of obstetrics and gynaecology employs renowned specialists in the field of gynaecology, obstetrics and reproductive medicine. Patients have access to modern operating theatres, equipped with modern equipment and instrumentation to perform the full range of gynaecological operations. The focus of the clinic is on endoscopic surgery with minimally invasive intervention. Included are rooms for resuscitation and recovery from anesthesia, a high-tech imaging sector and other specialized facilities related to the support of surgical activity. Consultations, check-ups and preventive AG examinations are also performed.

The head of the clinic is Assoc. Yordan Popov – one of the leading specialists in Northern Bulgaria in obstetrics and gynaecology, urogynaecology, childbirth in old age, female infertility, risky pregnancy, a long-standing and respected university lecturer.

Part of the Clinic’s team are Dr. Alexander Lyubenov – a specialist in minimally invasive and robotic gynecological surgery, with many years of experience in the prevention and treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the female reproductive system, as well as Dr. Dobrinka Gincheva – with experience in the treatment of infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, extraction and storage of stem cells, monitoring of normal and risky pregnancies.

The examinations are held after prior appointment by tel. 064/678 400 with strict observance of anti-epidemic measures.

Pandemic in the pandemic – that’s what specialists call the growing number of anxiety and depression states during a coronavirus. Patients talk openly about their experience of infection, but rarely about their mental anguish. And the problem is getting worse.

Seven people with COVID-19 are currently being treated at the Specialized Hospital for Active Treatment in Cardiology in Veliko Tarnovo. Two of the patients have anxiety and depression.

Anaesthesiologist Dr Vladimir Nikolov is one of the doctors treating the coronavirus patients. That’s why he was among the first to notice a deviation in behavior.
“Anxiety, irritability, more marked motor activity. Judges his symptoms and his condition itself through what he sees at the time. Expectation and reality very often mismatch in these patients who exhibit mental problems,” Dr Nikolov said.

Symptoms are triggered in 80% of patients, most often after the fifth day of their hospital stay. Therefore, since the beginning of the pandemic, patients with COVID-19 at the hospital have been under observation by a psychiatrist.

“I hear them every day. First of all, it’s a crisis intervention that I do, especially for new patients, because COVID-19 itself is stressful. And this stress arises from the fact that the patient with COVID-19 loses many things – he loses his job, he loses his normal life, he loses his social contacts, he loses his physical health, he loses his finances, and thus he also loses control of his life. In patients with COVID-19 who are hospitalized, the depression is twice as much and of much greater severity,” says Dr. Aneta Misheva, psychologist at the Veliko Tarnovo Hospital.

The results of a large study by psychologists show that one in five coronavirus survivors develop anxiety, depression or restlessness within three months.

“Whether he will suffer from insomnia, whether he will complain of excessive sweating, of palpitations, increased blood pressure, with frequent urination urges, stomach pain. This is already a vegetative symptomatology that develops within an anxiety. There are also behavioral manifestations. These behavioral manifestations make you move more. Starting an activity and never finishing it,” said Dr. Misheva.

Post-coronal symptoms are changes in memory, sensations, perceptions.

“So-called post-COVID conditions, which are extremely diverse and can affect any tissue and any organ. I can say that four out of five patients, 80%, continue to have at least one and many times more than one complaint after experiencing COVID-19. Particular attention should be paid to depressive states, which without timely help, instead of subsiding, worsen, psychologists advise,” says Prof. Dr. Iana Simova, Head of the Bulgarian Cardiology Institute in Sofia.

See the full report here.

Due to the huge patient interest, Dr. Alexander Lyubenov – leading specialist in minimally invasive and robotic gynecological surgery from the Heart and Brain hospital in Pleven, continues examining patients every Friday in Heart and Brain Burgas.

Read the full news in Bulgarian here.

“Shortening quarantine periods is right”. This is what Prof. Iana Simova told BNR. “We should take into account the fact that the waiting period for CDV-19 has been stopped.

She cited data showing that Omicron produces less lung damage than the Delta variant, and patients in hospital less often need oxygen therapy or intubation. And he stressed that global experts are cautious in saying that illness from this variant of the coronavirus is milder.

“It is likely that the course of Omicron in our country will be different than in other countries because of Bulgarians suffering from more than one disease and because of low vaccination rates. I came across a news report on CNN that in the next 6 to 8 weeks over 50% of the European population will fall ill with this variant of the coronavirus. That sounds alarming.”

In the programme “Something more”, Prof. Simova called for vaccination as a prevention against getting seriously ill from Covid-19.

“Vaccines protect even from Omicron. With the mutations of the virus, the effectiveness of the neutralizing antibodies has become slightly lower. That doesn’t mean the vaccines have no effect, they still protect us. Vaccinated, and getting infected, will get the disease off easier.”

She said children over the age of 5 should get the vaccine so they can continue to live normally socially and in a school environment.

Prof. Iana Simova is part of the national free programme “Life after Covid”. In a little over a year since the program began, 3,072 patients have sought help.

You can find the full-lenght interview here in Bulgarian.

The head of the clinic is Assoc. Prof. Yordan Popov, one of the leading specialists in Northern Bulgaria in obstetrics and gynecology, urogynecology, childbirth in old age, female infertility, risky pregnancy, a long-standing and respected university professor.

Part of the Clinic’s team is Dr. Alexander Lyubenov, a specialist in minimally invasive and robotic gynecological surgery, with many years of experience in the prevention and treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the female reproductive system, as well as Dr. Dobrinka Gincheva, with experience in the treatment of infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, stem cell extraction and storage, monitoring of normal and risky pregnancies.

The examinations will be conducted in strict compliance with the anti-epidemic measures.

Heart and Brain Center of Excellence in Pleven has been certified according to ISO 9001:2015. The quality management system for the provision of hospital medical services, clinical trials of medicines, medical devices and medical equipment, training of students and postgraduate students successfully passed the audit process. The certificate Nr is 090119.

The Neurology Clinic at Heart and Brain in Pleven received a positive evaluation for successfully passing the audit on conducting clinical trials in the research center of the hospital. The report from the Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) will be submitted for information to the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Heart and Brain Center for Clinical Excellence Burgas has started patient examinations in the newly opened departments of thoracic surgery (mammological examinations, thyroid examinations and psychological consultation), vascular surgery, general surgery, nervous diseases, neurosurgery, orthopedics and traumatology, urology, gastroenterology, physical and rehabilitation medicine.