RUSSIAN - AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM HELD IN TYUMEN CARDIOLOGY CENTER

The day began with a surprise for Dr. Timothy Timko. The first patient of those whom he performed the first transluminal angioplasties in 1995 came to see him and presented flowers as thanks.

Before the symposium there was a press conference with participation of Dr. Timothy Timko and his Russian colleagues: Igor. P. Zyrianov, MD, Head, Cath lab, Tyumen Cardiology Center; Alexander G. Osiev, MD, PhD, Head, Center for Endovascular Surgery and Radiodiagnostics, E.N. Meshalkin Research Institute of Blood Circulation Pathology (Novosibirsk); Alexander Yu. Rychkov, MD, PhD, Research Supervisor, Heart Rhythm Disturbances Department, Tyumen Cardiology Center, and Elena V. Logunova, Head, Foreign Relations Department,  Tyumen Cardiology Center.

The press conference was opened by Igor Zyrianov who talked about the first visit of Dr. Timko to Tyumen Cardiology Center. He showed papers and photos of that time. In 1995 the first transluminal angioplasty in Tyumen became a real sensation.

Many journalists asked Dr. Timko the same question “What Tyumen Cardiology Center he kept in mind in 1995 and what he thinks of it now.” Dr. Timko said that he was impressed by a high level of medical help provided by Tyumen Cardiology Center. According to him, nowadays specialists, equipment, methods are at the same high level as they are in the USA. In 1990s, of course, none of all this was in Tyumen Cardiology Center. He said that while the main aim of his first visit to Tyumen  had been to teach Russian physicians up-to-date methods of treating coronary artery disease, in particular transluminal coronary angioplasty, the aim of the latest visit was to exchange experience with colleagues from Tyumen  who manage all modern methods used in developed countries.

Alexander G. Osiev, in his turn, told journalists about a new method of treating vessels which is already used in Novosibirsk. This new method is called retrograde recanalization of chronic coronary artery occlusions. It is the technique that his lecture at the symposium was devoted to.