In Kyiv, a groundbreaking heart surgery was performed on a newborn for the first time in the world (photo).

The first-ever heart surgery on a newborn baby was performed at the Children's Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Center in Kyiv. The child, who had a severe heart defect, was successfully operated on in the first minutes of life on November 19, reported the center's press service.

The unprecedented operation took place on November 19, marking the one thousandth day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to the cardiology and cardiac surgery center.

Two operating rooms were utilized for this procedure. In the first room, the director of the Kyiv Perinatal Center, Dmitry Govseyev, performed a cesarean section. As soon as the baby was delivered from the mother's womb, they were immediately transported to the adjacent operating room, where Professor Ilya Emets, the director of the State Institution "Scientific-Practical Medical Center of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine," operated on the newborn.

"This is the first operation in the history of global cardiac surgery where we, together with obstetricians and gynecologists led by Professor Dmitry Govseyev, performed surgery on a newborn immediately after a cesarean section, creating a temperature comfort in the cardio-operating room akin to that in the mother's womb, essentially an 'artificial womb,'" stated cardiac surgeon Ilya Emets.

It is noted that the mother came to Kyiv from Moldova. During her pregnancy, her baby was diagnosed with transposition of the great vessels. This is a severe congenital heart condition that is incompatible with life.

Recall that on November 14, The Lancet magazine reported that in Japan, for the first time, four patients regained their sight using stem cells from which epithelial cells were obtained for transplantation into the cornea of the eye.

Additionally, on November 8, the Saint Nicholas Children's Hospital in Lviv announced that a robotic surgeon saved the life of a 6-year-old girl with a rare syndrome. Polina Bidyuk was unable to eat, was rapidly losing weight, and urgently needed intestinal surgery. With the help of the robot, an extremely precise intervention was performed, and now the child can eat normally and is recovering from her illness.