theme №326 04.08.1998 (1998)

Theme issue - the heart.

The first open heart surgery was performed in 1953, since then science has advanced far ahead, however, today heart disease continues to take far more lives than all other diseases.

From heart disease suffers a quarter of the population of the planet.

Fortunately, there are doctors that can spice up this complex mechanism and to return the person most precious - his life.

In the Moscow cardiology center met the legendary surgeons of our time, whose names are forever inscribed in history: Michael of medical science Boris Petrovsky, Leo Bokeria, Renat Akchurin and Eugene Chazov.

The conversation was devoted to the development of cardiac surgery, prevention of heart disease by educating people and promoting a healthy lifestyle, the release in Russia of the book of Michael of medical science and Antonio Gotto "New life of the heart" and memories about the operation that Michael and of medical science Renat Akchurin spent Boris Yeltsin.

In the Studio, we had a conversation about the profession of a surgeon, the methods of treatment of heart disease and about the problems of the financing of the Centre of cardiovascular surgery named after A. N. Bakulev.

To the audience's questions were answered by Leo Bokeria, the Ambassador of Argentina to the United States Luis Giay, Advisor of the order of the doctors of France George Kopylov (George Kopiloff).

Also in the program were the leading surgeons of Russia Anatoly Nikonov, Vladimir Ilyin, Vladimir Podzolkov, Rudolph Movsesian, Director of Alikian, Yuri Buziashvili, Amiran Revishvili, Sergei Gorbachev and Sergei Nikonov.