Alexander Zemlyansky, the Chief of the X-ray Surgery Department of the Medical Center Hospital of the President’s Affairs Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, interventional cardiologist, radiologist participated in the Annual International Congress on Endovascular Treatment of Vascular Diseases CX Charing Cross in London.
During the congress, Dr. Zemlyansky was acquainted with the latest trends and developments used in the treatment of peripheral vessels, took a practical simulation course on implantation of fenestrated stent grafts in the treatment of thoracic and abdominal aorta with involvement of vessels that feed vital organs in the pathological process of aortic dilation. Previously, operations to eliminate such lesions of the abdominal and thoracic aorta were performed by traditional surgical means - by abdominal or thoracic cavity incision. But now, the developed methods of world practice allow the installation of such intravascular prosthetic stent grafts through a puncture. The uniqueness of the method lies in a non-surgical method of intravascular prosthesis installation in abdominal or thoracic cavity and is calculated in such a way that all aortic branches, which are involved in the pathological process, remain passable, while the aneurysm itself is turned off from the blood flow, thus preventing its further expansion, which leads to rupture and death of the patient.
Elimination of aortic aneurysms by implantation of thoracic and abdominal stent grafts has been successfully used at the Medical Center Hospital of the President’s Affairs Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan for a long time. And from now on, elimination of aortic aneurysms by endovascular implantation of fenestrated stent grafts of a new modification will also be used at our Hospital.
Many hospitals worldwide use this type of surgery in their practice. And now for the first time, this method, as well as other modern techniques in the treatment of vessels by endovascular method without incisions will be used in Kazakhstan.
