Watch more Sklif episodes: https://rtd.rt.com/films/sklif-series/ Ekaterina is only 35, but her heart is already failing her. It’s malfunctioning so badly that she could die at any moment. A heart transplant is her only option. It’s complicated surgery and even if it goes well, there is still a risk of the donor organ being rejected.
Fortunately, the operation will be performed by Dr Anzor Khubutia, an experienced cardiac surgeon and the head of Russia’s most famous hospital, Sklif. The young mother was also lucky to get a donor organ in time. Now she has a good chance of recovery. However, getting lucky like that is always bitter-sweet, as it results from the death of the organ donor. Dr Anzor still remembers the first donor he recovered a heart from and the tragic story of that man’s death.
Sklif series on RT Doc provides an exclusive look inside the famous Sklifosovsky Institute. It's known to every Muscovite, and many Russians too. With the best equipment and medical specialists in the country, it represents the pinnacle of emergency medicine. The hospital's Emergency Intensive Care Unit is the clinic's busiest unit, with doctors and nurses tending to those whose lives are hanging by a thread. Watch the film in Russian.
Sklifosovsky Institute, aka Sklif: Europe's largest research and development facility for emergency medical care, complete with a hospital, research labs, surgery rooms, burn treatment facility and much more. Here, battles against death are fought every minute of every day. It takes the best to win.
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