In Tatarstan, doctors removed a splinter from the heart of a fighter

In Tatarstan, doctors successfully performed an operation to extract a fragment from the heart of a soldier in a special military operation (SVO). This was announced on April 30 by Mikhail Burmistrov, head of the military hospital at the RCB of Tatarstan.

"Today, for the first time in the history of our republic, we performed the removal of a heart fragment without an artificial circulatory system <...> We removed the remaining fragments of his chest wall, and during a CT scan we found a fragment that was stuck in his right atrium," he said.

It is specified that the 37-year-old soldier was injured during an attack by Ukrainian drones in December 2024. After a series of examinations, specialists found a fragment in his heart, so the doctors of the Republican Clinical Hospital, together with specialists from the Interregional Clinical Diagnostic Center, decided to perform surgery without cardiac arrest - for the first time in the region.

The doctors took a very responsible approach to this operation and prepared all the necessary materials in advance, such as a 3D model of the heart, in order to carefully calculate their actions. Thanks to this, the operation was successful. Now the fighter is on the mend.

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