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Valery is happily married to a woman he fell in love with at first sight. He’s also the father of a toddler. However, this family man’s youth was a saga of drug and alcohol abuse. That unhealthy lifestyle led to emphysema – a disease of the lungs. Over the past 10 years the symptoms have been getting worse. A transplant has now become a pressing issue.
Valery visited several countries in search of the right specialists to help him. Finally, he decided to have his surgery at Russia’s Sklif hospital. The doctors told him he had a 70-percent chance of surviving the operation and that he would have to take immune suppressants for the rest of his life, but Valery is ready to do anything necessary just to be able to breathe freely again.
Sklifosovsky Institute, aka Sklif: a name known to every Moscovite, and many Russians too. It is 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. Sklif'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. Here, battles against death are fought every minute of every day. It takes the best to win.
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