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‘Science is an integral part of my life!’

29 Nov Nov 2021
2021

Discussion with Elena Samoilova, MD, PhD, cardiologist of the first category, Scientific Researcher of Arterial Hypertension Department and Coronary Insufficiency of Scientific Department of Clinical Cardiology in Tyumen Cardiology Research Center - a branch of the Tomsk NRMC in ‘Young Scientists’ section.


Dr.Samoilova told about how her interest in medical science had begun.

Even in early childhood, she decided to become a doctor: treated dolls, gave injections to toys. Her parents were representatives of theoretical field in healthcare: they worked at Chemistry and Hygiene Department, so there were always a lot of conversations at her home about new surgeries and technologies. She even had no idea how one could be, for example, an accountant or an economist. The choice in favor of a medical education was obvious to Elena Samoilova!

The interest in science appeared at acquaintance with Vadim Anatolyevich Kuznetsov, MD, PhD, Professor, Scientific Supervisor of our Center. He came to one of student events and asked who wants to do science. Students didn’t really   understand what they were getting into, but in the process they became so involved and interested in scientific activities that nowadays it was difficult to imagine themselves without science.

To our physician’ mind, the most significant scientific achievement of hers was defense Ph.D. thesis in December, last year. The aim of the study was to compare long-term cardiovascular events after undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with results of another group of patients who did not undergo this procedure.

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a modern type of surgical intervention that is characterized by low trauma. In the Tyumen Cardiology Research Center, more than 3,000 such high-tech surgeries are performed annually.

The idea was to understand how to manage patients in medical practice: to follow conflicting evidence from existing research or define the own treatment strategies.
Long-term follow-up of patients became extraordinary characteristic of our study, because even international studies had never had the same earlier. The maximum period of retrospective analysis was 10 years, while in our country this period reached 14 years.

In the course of the study, conclusion was made: if patient had sufficiently large atherosclerotic concretions in heart arteries, the best treatment would be special stent placement and surgical treatment rather than drug therapy administration. However, results contradicted some multicenter studies, so the study of our scientists continued to find out why they had got exactly such data. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the distance between settlements in our region was colossal: people flew from city to city by airplane.

Besides territorial aspect, influence of such factors as smoking and obesity was worked out. Results of the study were published in the October 2020 issue of Consilium Medicum.


Elena Samoilova shared how research findings were being applied in practice. She was sure that most of the scientific developments were almost immediately introduced into practice in our Research Center. If a patient had certain risk factors, he would get stent placement, rather than send him home with drug treatment prescription. Results of the research were applied for even more effective prevention, diagnostics and the most modern treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Now our scientist was engaged in research activities concerning her Ph.D. thesis. She was working out the theory about the influence of the territorial factor on results of recovery in patients with atherosclerotic concretions in the arteries. She was going to participate in several scientific and practical conferences and preparing an article for publication. In addition, physician told, that our research team was a part of scientific program for study of vascular risk and microbiota, at those stage they were recruiting patients to participate in the study.

Moreover, physician assumed that to be a young scientist was very interesting! Scientific activity enriched the daily work of physician. It let constantly learning new facts, self-training.
She assured science was integral part of her life. Every year became more interesting and knowledge grew with scientists. To start studying science was seemed to be walking by touch. When you went deeper, you understood that work had strict stages and the path became clearer.


In conclusion our young scientist shared that she was a happy wife and mother of two children, so free time was planned out. Her family was very active: they walked a lot; they loved to ski in winter and cycling in summer.

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