Month: January 2023

On February 10, 2023 at the ‘Heart and Brain’ Center of Clinical Excellence in Burgas will be held an attendance one-day course under the guidance of Dr. Petyo Bratoev, Head of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Department, and his team. The topic is “Kinematic alignment and balancing in total knee arthroplasty with navigation system”. The training includes presentations by leading specialists from Germany and the performance of two surgical operations using a navigation system.

On February 20 and 21, 2023, world-renowned thoracic surgeon Prof. Dr. Diego Gonzalez Rivas, a recognized world expert in endoscopic thoracic surgery, will conduct a masterclass on single-port robotic and video-assisted thoracic surgery. The program includes demonstration surgeries and a lecture course. Breast surgeons from Sofia, Plovdiv and Stara Zagora have confirmed their attendance. The event will be hosted by the Head of the Thoracic Surgery Clinic – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rumen Filipov and his team. This is not the first visit of prof. Rivas in Bulgaria, but his choice to conduct the training in ‘Heart and Brain’ Burgas is a recognition of the professionalism and skills of the surgeons at the Bulgarian Cardiac Institute’s hospital.

A multidisciplinary team consisting of cardiac and abdominal surgeons in ,Heart and Brain,, Pleven performed a complex surgery for simultaneous removal of the spleen and aortic valve prosthesis under emergency conditions. The patient had bacterial infection of the aortic valve and abscess in the spleen.

“He came to us after initially being treated at another institution for non-specific complaints, but without result. Following his admission to ,Heart and Brain’, we immediately conducted highly specialized investigations and so came the diagnosis – bacterial endocarditis with septic infarction of the spleen. After a discussion with my colleagues we decided to have both teams working simultaneously. The cardiac surgeons had to prosthetic the aortic valve and the abdominal surgeons had to remove the spleen,” said Dr Tsvetomir Ivanov, surgeon at the Oncological and General Surgery Clinic.

Due to the urgency and extreme complexity, both teams had to work simultaneously. The surgeries went smoothly and the patient recovered without complications.

Surgical procedures performed by two or more teams are now routine in the ,Heart and Brain’ Centers of Clinical Excellence. The multidisciplinary approach reduces trauma to the patient and blood loss during surgery is less. Patients recover faster and hospital stays are shorter – these are fundamental preconditions to achieve high outcomes in modern medicine.