In Tatarstan, doctors removed a fragment from the heart of a veteran of his military

In the Republic of Tatarstan, a veteran of a special military operation (SVO) underwent a unique operation — a fragment was removed from his heart. On May 19, Valery Matveev, head of the thoracic surgery department at the Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the region, told Izvestia.

Private of the 25th Army, commander of the assault group Vladimir Timakov was seriously wounded by cluster munitions. It was not possible to extract a fragment from the thoracic aorta in the posterior mediastinum, and for health reasons he was discharged from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

"One of them (bombs. — Ed.) flew right in the back. After that, I lay in the cold for three hours, I have a punctured lung: four holes through. I couldn't breathe properly," the soldier said.

As the head of the hospital noted, surgeons freed the lung from the connective tissues and removed the fragment. The work lasted about three hours. The difficulty was that due to the injury, the veteran developed hematorox, an accumulation of blood in the pleural region and lung.

"The operation was performed endoscopically, without extensive traumatic access. The difficulty was that he had previously suffered a penetrating wound," the doctor stressed, adding that a week after the operation, the patient was ready to be discharged.

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In April, Mikhail Burmistrov, head of the military hospital at the Red Army of Tatarstan, reported that doctors in Tatarstan had successfully performed an operation to extract a fragment from the heart of a soldier of the SVO. It is noted that the doctors decided to perform the operation without cardiac arrest — for the first time in the region. Now the soldier is on the mend.