PROFESSOR VASILY VASILYEVICH KOPTELTSEV – THE FOUNDER OF THE CARDIAC SURGERY SERVICE IN KUBAN (to the 100th anniversary of the birthday)

Abstract

A department of cardiovascular surgery was created, which performed the functions of the cardiosurgical center of the Kuban. Surgical treatment of congenital and acquired heart diseases began in Krasnodar in 1959. The surgeries were performed under endotracheal inhalation anesthesia without an artificial circulatory system under hypothermia. Over the first 16 years, more than 600 surgeries were performed. Right-sided thoracotomy access to the mitral valve was used through a stratified interatrial septum. Finger and instrumental commissurotomy through the heart’s auricle were introduced into clinical practice. In 1969, V. V. Kopteltsev summarized the experience of surgical work in his doctoral dissertation "Surgical treatment of patients with mitral stenosis".