Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery named after A.N. Bakulev RAMS

History

2021: Start using 3D printing model of cardiac pathology before surgery

In early June 2021, it became known that the A.N. Bakulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery will use 3D printing of a model of cardiac pathology before surgery. The innovation will help surgeons "rehearse" operations by inserting real implants, wires and tools into an anatomical model created on a 3D printer. Thanks to this, doctors will be able to better prepare for real surgical interventions.

142 patients of N.N. Bakuleva NIC will take part in clinical testing of the method of operative treatment of heart and vascular diseases and malformations using 3D printing. It is noted that it is planned to attract male and female patients of all age categories to the tests of the technology, depending on the etiology of the disease.

In the Bakulev Center, they begin to use 3D printing of a model of cardiac pathology before surgery

The essence of the method is to create a physical model of heart defects, aorta and main vessels on a 3D printer based on MRI, CT scans, echocardiography and rotational angiography.

The Bakulev Center believes that the new technique will help in the treatment of mitral insufficiency, including obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aortic valve malformation, congenital aortic arch abnormalities, aortic stenosis, delaminating aortic aneurysms and abdominal aortic aneurysms.

The test will be led by the director of the NMIC SSH named after A.N. Bakuleva academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Elena Golukhova, Head of the Department of Surgery for Older Children with Congenital Heart Disease, Deputy Director of the Center Academician Vladimir Podzolkov, Head of the Department of Reconstructive Surgery of Heart Valves and Coronary Arteries, Director of the Institute of Coronary and Vascular Surgery of the NMIC SSH Ivan Skopin, Head of the Department of Arterial Pathology Surgery Valery Arakelyan and Head of the Department of Reconstructive Neonatal Surgery Alexei Kim.^[1]

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