DEPARTMENT OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Department of Acute Myocardial Infarction was founded in 1991 at the base of Intensive Care Unit under the initiative of the head of the Institute – academician L.T. Malaya who was the first chief of Department. Since 2005 the chief of Acute Myocardial Infarction Department is being Doctor of Medical Sciences Mykola Kopitsa.

The main approaches of scientific research: to search the pathogenesis and to find of new ways of the therapy of acute coronary syndrome by prevention and lessening of myocardial injury and bettering of clinical course of disease and prophylaxis of its complications; to prognose and prevent ventricular arrhythmias and to search the risk factors of sudden cardiac death appearance; to search the early factors of heart failure appearance in patients with acute coronary syndrome and their pharmacological correction.

Most important research results

• It has been researched pathogenetic predictors of myocardial injury that approached to progressive heart failure, ventricular rhythm disturbances, and sudden cardiac death.

• It has been conducted theoretical summarizing and proposed new scientific substantiation of the inflammation markers role in the pathogenesis of acute coronary syndrome.

• It has been proved that В-natriuretic peptide is the early marker of heart failure in patients with myocardial infarction.

The clinical base of Acute Myocardial Infarction Department has modern equipment for patients monitor observation, defibrillators, mechanical ventilation of lung, ECGs, counterpulsation, ultrasound diagnostic, 24-hour Holter monitoring of ECG, laboratory. Some of this equipment was taken with the help of humanitarian action of Israel, and supported by the President of Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine Alexander Vozianov.

Since 1993 aegis European Cardiology Association was carried out such trials as EMIP-FR, BIRD, ZOF-07, HERO-2, EXTRACT-TIMI and so on. As a result of scientific activity of Department it has been published 2 monograph, 175 articles, 6 patents of Ukraine, defended 1 thesis for a Doctor’s degree and 14 Ph.D. theses. Department collaborates with another scientific institutions such as Research Institute of Cardiology named M.D.Strazhesko (Kyiv), Medical Academy (Dnipropetrovsk), Medical-Stomatological University (Moscow), Erasmus University (Rotterdam), Essen Cardiology Center (Germany), Northwick Park Institute for Medicak Research (Great Britan).

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